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THE MIDLE AGES finds him back at work in the mines of daily life where, as he has done for years, he extracts, for our enjoyment, nugget after nugget, gem after gem.--Charles Harper Webb\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jim Daniels is a masterpoet of dry wit and skeptical whimsy as he navigates THE MIDLE AGES in his latest collection of poems. Here are meditations on fatherhood and fathering, on growing older--but not necessarily wiser--on marriage and loss, surgery and depression. Humor is a survival strategy for this poet, and he employs it with panache and empathy, remembering the past but not deifying it, looking to the future with rue and a touch of resignation. 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Jim Daniels is humorous, provocative, and smart--an American treasure.--Denise Duhamel\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Rueful and sweet, these poems remind us that it's the dark aspect of life that makes the bright so lovely we can hardly bear it. Many of the most moving lines are about teenagers, clumsy, speechless 14- and 15-year- olds who will one day be as wise and compassionate as the poet himself. 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