Show and Tell

by Daniels, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780299185848
• ISBN10: 0299185842
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-22
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Features the "best of" the celebrated poet Jim Daniels

Author Biography

Jim Daniels received a 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and was the first Brittingham Poetry Prize winner for Places/Everyone, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He is the author of fourteen other collections of poetry, including seven full-length collections: Places/Everyone, Punching Out, M-80, Blessing the House, Niagara Falls, Blue Jesus, and Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Places/Everyone (1985)
My Father Worked Late	5	(2)
No Job	7	(2)
Short-Order Cook	9	(1)
May's Poem	10	(2)
The Good Parts	12	(1)
Factory Love	13	(1)
After Work	14	(3)
Punching Out (1990)
Where I'm At: Factory Education	17	(3)
Midnight Date	20	(2)
Work Boots: Still Life	22	(1)
Soo Locks	23	(1)
Work Song: Blues for Me, Blues for Jeannie	24	(2)
Work Song: Factory Musical	26	(5)
Digger
Digger Drives to Work	31	(2)
Digger Goes Hunting	33	(1)
Digger Goes on Vacation	34	(3)
Digger Ties One On	37	(2)
Digger's Territory	39	(1)
Digger on the Nature Trail	40	(3)
Digger Laps at the Bowl	43	(4)
M-80 (1993)
M-80	47	(2)
Crazy Eddie	49	(2)
Parked Car	51	(2)
Anthem	53	(1)
Time, Temperature	54	(13)
Broke	67	(3)
Trouble at the Drive-In	70	(5)
Niagara Falls (1994)
Niagara Falls	75	(24)
Blessing the House (1997)
Blessing the House	99	(2)
Birch Bark	101	(2)
My Mother's See-Through Blouse	103	(2)
Polish American Night, Tiger Stadium	105	(2)
Sin Sandwich	107	(4)
How	111	(3)
Night Light	114	(2)
Coming Home from the Hospital after My Son's Birth	116	(1)
Silk	117	(2)
The Sleeper Hold	119	(8)
Blue Jesus (2000)
Yellow Jesus	127	(2)
Green Jesus	129	(1)
Purple Jesus	130	(2)
White Jesus	132	(1)
Shedding the Vestments	133	(2)
Night Janitor, McMahon Oil	135	(3)
The Fall	138	(1)
Bone and Hook	139	(2)
The Black Hole of the Human Body	141	(1)
Evolution: Two Figures with Monkey	142	(2)
Jet of Water	144	(3)
Night With Drive-By Shooting Stars (2002)
Red Vinyl	147	(2)
Quitting the Card Club	149	(2)
Heat Wave	151	(1)
Helping with My Brother's Resume	152	(2)
Beautiful Thing	154	(1)
Falling Bricks	155	(1)
Between Periods	156	(3)
Brown's Farm	159	(4)
Flag Day in Warren, Michigan
Uncollected and New Poems
A Real Comedian: The True Genius of Bob Hope	163	(3)
The Tenured Guy	166	(3)
Skywriting	169	(3)
The Beginnings of Compassion	172	(2)
The Facts of Grief	174	(2)
The Church of Mr. Pea	176	(1)
Econo	177	(2)
Flag Day in Warren, Michigan	179	(9)
Sock-Hop Blues	188	(2)
The Sound of It	190	(2)
Show and Tell	192