{"title":"Jim Daniels","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Daniels’ most recent book is \u003cem\u003eBirth Marks\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA, 2013), winner of the Milt Kessler Poetry Award from Binghamton University. His other work includes the Midwest Award-winning short fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eTrigger Man: More Tales from the Motor City\u003c\/em\u003e (Michigan State University Press, 2011); and \u003cem\u003eHaving a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2011), which won the Poetry Gold Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. In 2010 he wrote and produced the independent film “Mr. Pleasant”, his third produced screenplay. Daniels is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"birth-marks","title":"Birth Marks","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA 2014 Michigan Notable Book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2014 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award winner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry Gold Medal recipient, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poet of the working-class and city streets, Jim Daniels’s 14th poetry collection travels from Detroit to Ohio to Pittsburgh, from one post-industrial city to another, across jobs and generations. Daniels focuses on the urban landscape and its effects on its inhabitants as they struggle to establish community on streets hissing with distrust and random violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eBirth Marks\u003cstrong\u003e”\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was stymied by pizza, but not\u003cbr\u003eby ice cream. She ordered vanilla\u003cbr\u003efor its sound. She reigned as Queen\u003cbr\u003eof the Isle of \u003ci\u003eYou Decide\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe had the patience of a splinter\u003cbr\u003eworking its way to the surface\u003cbr\u003eand the business sense \u003cbr\u003eof a herd of cattle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe used her checkbook\u003cbr\u003eto prop up every minor purchase. \u003cbr\u003eHe used cash for the benefit\u003cbr\u003eof its traceless disappearance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn short, he was a bad magician\u003cbr\u003eand she the nervous assistant, \u003cbr\u003ea match manufactured in a damp swamp. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet they set off enough sparks\u003cbr\u003eto produce me out of a hat, \u003cbr\u003edazed by their applause. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTechnically, I can’t remember\u003cbr\u003ethat far back, but I can make up\u003cbr\u003ea few things, given the lack\u003cbr\u003eof memory and receipts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eBirth Marks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe poetry of Jim Daniels springs from a deep well of compassion for the working class, their plundered cities and their plundered lives. His sharp eye surveys the landscapes of Detroit and Pittsburgh, his uncles struggling against alcoholism, his aunts scraping by on the wages of fast-food restaurants. His clear voice speaks for the fallen, from the company men who played by the rules and lost anyway to a child killed in a hit-and-run accident. Yet the poet finds dignity and redemption in the grace of baseball or the consolation of the human touch, spirituality in spite of churches, love in the mist of pesticide.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Martín Espada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Jim Daniels keeps getting better, going deeper into his lived life to find there the language of celebration, lamentation, victory, defeat, moral ambiguity, and political and social outrage. He curses what needs to be cursed, he blesses what needs to be blessed, and he stands in silent awe and wonder at the world turning about him, a world of unaccountable suffering and unaccounted for beauty. And while that world resists Daniels\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es best efforts to be made sense of, complex as it is, giant as it is, it can\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003et help but yield its music to his gifted mind and impassioned heart.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Li-Young Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2013\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":8420269893,"sku":"9781938160165","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BirthMarks_Front.jpg?v=1527683185"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/140.1363626188.jpeg?v=1449014727","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/jim-daniels.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}