Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems

"Jim Daniels is a poet of unique commitment and ability. He makes poetry an act of deep caring and recognition."-Robert Creeley

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.

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

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