𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 / 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝘀 -

The stark lives of workers in 1980s Detroit, Daniels's poetry is both distant and personal, barren but resonant.

https://youtu.be/bNfejSbaVyU

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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: “𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 / 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲” 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝘀 -

Daniels's first poetry reverie on life in Detroit in the 1970s and 1980s as the auto industry slows; not commentary, but nostalgic close-ups of characters and streets, poignant in its plainness and soot.

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #3words #jimdaniels #placeseveryone #detroit #autoindustry #workers #bluecollar #poetry #nostalgia #memoir

every day of her life that wasn't Sunday

The Holy Whispers
Jim Daniels

#Poetry #JimDaniels #HolyWhispers #VerseDaily #LakeHuron #Michigan

https://www.versedaily.org/2025/theholywhispers.shtml

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 / 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹𝘀 -

Collection from Detroit-born poet Jim Daniels, one that I've been wanting to get to for a "few" years, now, especially after meeting and working with him briefly in the 1980s.

#poetry #localpoet #detroit #jimdaniels #PlacesEveryone #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few of the books I'm reading this month!

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #tbr #nationalpoetrymonth #arabamericanheritagemonth #mohsinhamid #thereluctantfundamentalist #rabihalameddine #anunnecessarywoman #poetry #yevgenyyevteshenko #jimdaniels #placeseveryone #rainermariarilke #duinoelegies #mohammedelkurd #rifqa #mosababutoha #forestofnoise #nataliegoldberg #threesimplelines

I'm trying to picture her swimming

The Deep End
Jim Daniels

#Poetry #JimDaniels #TheDeepEnd #Literature

http://www.versedaily.org/2024/deepend.shtml