Description:
In poems selected from his long career, Daniels focuses on Detroit and other Rust Belt cities, where issues of class and race and justice play out in the streets and kitchens and backyards and garages of the Americans trying to live and make a living there.
Review Quotes:
"Jim Daniels' poetry explores not only the realities of a blue collar, late 20th Century, upper Midwest childhood, but the entirety of America's sociocultural whirlwind throughout these last six decades. Few writers believe more deeply in poetry's capacity to document the world, and documentation, in his hands, is a form of homage." --Campbell McGrath, author of twelve full-length collections of poetry