The Middle Ages by Jim Daniels

The Middle Ages by Jim Daniels

Poetry. As prolific as he is talented, Jim Daniels gets my vote for 'the hardest-working man in poetry.' His poems are honest, straightforward, full of insight, wit, and good will, and grounded firmly in the human and humane. 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

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. Daniels' poems take everything in--all our foibles and failings, our loves and refusals--and make all of it memorable, tinged with regret, but still ours, still meaningful, still worth the work and grit of poetry.--Allison Joseph

THE MIDLE AGES is a meditation on America's power and vulnerability in Pittsburgh, in Doha, in Michigan's U.P. Jim Daniels is a generous, inventive poet with great emotional range and insight. He is at home writing poems about home--the domestic space, child-rearing, marriage, aging, ambition--with honesty, intimacy, and grace. He is also a poet of the world--a witness to war, poverty, political absurdities, and impending obliteration, asking 'What happened to shame, / good old American shame?' Read this book and find out. Jim Daniels is humorous, provocative, and smart--an American treasure.--Denise Duhamel

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. Actually, these poems tell us we're all teens, in a way, all growing daily into a beauty uniquely our own.--David Kirby

Jim Daniels' recent books include Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City and Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry, winner of the Midwest Book Award. His poems have appeared widely in such places as Billy Collins' Poetry 180 anthologies, Best American Poetry anthologies, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry series. His poem Factory Love is displayed on the roof of a race car. Daniels has garnered such honors as the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Prize, the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is the Thomas Stockham Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received the Ryan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Elliott Dunlap Smith Award for Teaching and Educational Service. A native of Detroit, MI, Daniels is a graduate of Alma College and Bowling Green State University. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with his family.

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ISBN 13	9780998514024
ISBN 10	0998514020
Title	The Middle Ages
Author	Jim Daniels
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Red Mountain Press
Year published	2018-03-01
Number of pages	92
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