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Author Daniels, Jim

Title Rowing Inland
Published Wayne State University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Made in Michigan writers series
Made in Michigan writers series.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Customs -- 1. Rowing Inland -- Home Improvement -- Rowing Inland -- Swiss Steak -- Wishbone -- Talking by the Fence -- Three Sonnets: Cutting My Grandfather's Grass -- Beware of (My Grandfather's Fake) Dog -- Prayer Above the Washer -- My Mother Recalls the Miracle of the Loaf (No Fish) -- Photo of My Grandparents Working Their Lunch Wagon at the Gates of Dodge Main -- Family Relics: The Suicide Policeman's Blackjack -- Second Shift Closed the Bar -- Reading Dante's Inferno on Break at Ford's -- Laughing from Here
Room Divider -- Hard Candy -- Last Meals -- 2. Welcome to Warren -- Welcome to Warren -- I. The Exploding Cigar Tour -- II. Around the Block -- III. Hidden Beauty -- IV. Legendary Parks -- V. The Heavy Stuff -- VI. The End of Childhood -- 3. Late Invocation for Magic -- Late Invocation for Magic -- Weeding Out the Weak -- Letter to Andy -- The Monkees, 1968 -- School's Out, "" Alice Cooper, 1972 -- Infamous -- The Unpregnant Pause -- Calling Out Marlene Miller -- Dead Girl -- Homemade Prom Dress -- FOE: Forwarding Order Expired -- 4. Economic Fairy Tale -- Soft Side of the Moon
Painting a Picture with Broken Crayons -- Crayola Trailer Park Eight-Pack -- The St. Vitus Dance of the Factory Floor -- Rouge Overpass -- Easter Sunday at Hakim's Convenience -- Something Like a Sonnet for Something Like Peace -- July 20 Fireworks During Ongoing Conflicts Abroad -- Quitting the Day Job in the Middle Ages -- A Game Called Rock -- Christmas Dinner, 2008 -- Economic Fairy Tale: The Cement House -- Fifth of July: The Morning After with Lady Liberty -- Summer Weight, Labor Day -- Crooked Teeth -- Homeless Arisen from Dead -- About the Author
Summary "Rowing Inland, Jim Daniels's fifteenth book of poetry, is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. With humor and empathy, the author looks at his own family's challenges and those of the surrounding community where the legacy handed down from generation to generation is one of survival. Although the book focuses on Detroit's metropolitan area, it can be considered a snapshot of working-class life anywhere across the country. Daniels casts his lens on a way of life that is often distorted or ignored by the powers that be. He zooms in on street level where all the houses may look alike but each holds its own secrets and dreams."--Book cover
Notes Print version record
A 2018 Michigan Notable Book Selection
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
SUBJECT Detroit (Mich.) -- Poetry
Subject Michigan -- Detroit
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016955736
ISBN 0814342191
9780814342190