Places/Everyone: Volume 1

by Jim Daniels

Book Overview

Jim Daniels, in his first book of poems, draws upon his experiences in living and working in his native Detroit to present a start, realistic picture of urban, blue-collar life. Daniels, his brothers, his father, and his grandfather have all worked in the auto industry, and that background seeps into nearly all these poems.
The first of the book's three sections sketches out this background, then moves into a neighborhood full of people whose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299103544
• ISBN13: 9780299103545
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Accessible, important, and intense

One of my favorite books by one of my favorite poets...a book you should buy for your friends who say they don't like poetry because they don't understand it. Daniels takes images from everyday urban life, including the task of making 30 burgers and 30 fries, a child catching crickets for pay from his mom, and Digger, Daniels' representation of a blue-collar worker, waiting up for his daughter on her first date. The title poem, a description of the workers in each department of a department store, is absolutely fantastic--Daniels at his disarmingly direct best. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.