Born: 06/06/1956   Detroit , MI
Parents: Raymond J. and Mary T. Daniels
Children: Ramsey, Rosalie
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3419 Parkview Ave.
Pittsburgh , PA 15213
USA
Contact Information:
Phone : Phone: (412) 268-2842
Email : [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Birth Marks - Jim Daniels's 14th poetry collection travels from Detroit to Ohio to Pittsburgh, from one post-industrial city to another. Michigan Notable Book: 2014.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	BOA Editions Ltd.	2013
	All of the Above - Twenty-four poems in nontraditional ghazal form. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes gruesome, the poems build on each other in echoing images and sounds then turn against themselves again and again. As always in a Jim Daniels collection, the reader becomes immersed in his language and the characters that people his poems, then are astonished with where the poem leads the mind.	Poetry	Adult	Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press	2011
	Trigger Man : More Tales of the Motor City - A superb collection of stories capturing the gritty spirit of Detroit and the sometimes grim circumstances of the characters shaped by its industry and economics. Grounded on the bleak streets of the Motor City, these stories also explore the mythical “Up North,” the idealized country of many Detroit workers’ fantasy — an escape from the concrete and metal reality of their daily lives. Daniels’ characters are resilient and defiant, inhabiting a world that has often placed them on the margins of society, scouring a declining region for spiritual providence. Building on Daniels’ earlier collections of stories, Trigger Man brings vivid life to individuals struggling both to remain in and to flee the city that once sustained them.	Fiction , Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press	2011
	From Milltown to Malltown : Poems - Poems accompanied by photographs of Homestead,Pennsylvania, a former steel mill town now home to numerous chain stores. The new Waterfront mega shopping center contrasts with the declining steel-era part of town.	Poetry	Adult	Grosse Pointe Farms, MI. : Marick Press	2010
	Having a Little Talk With Capital P Poetry - In this wide-ranging collection, Jim Daniels moves from Detroit to Pittsburgh, from childhood to parenthood, meditating on memory and loss, on what we try to dispose of in our own personal landfills, and what we are confronted with in the present moments of our daily lives. He riffs on popular music in the "Esperanto" poems, trying to capture what is universal about music, apart from language, using the only thing at his disposal--language. In "The Tenured Guy" series, he creates an Everyman character to examine some of the less noble aspects of academic life, similar to how he used the character "Digger" to explore factory life in his earlier books. Throughout the book, Daniels' cynicism battles with his sense of wonder. In the face of our bones turning to dust, he seems to argue, we can both experience the pain of laughter and the joy of tears.	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA :Carnegie Mellon University Press	2010
	In Line for the Exterminator : Poems - In Line for the Exterminator is the final collection in Jim Daniels's trilogy of books explaining the urban working-class landscape. Daniels, who grew up near the Eight Mile Road boundary between Detroit and suburban Warren, Michigan, walks the razor's edge of the borderline in this collection, examining complex issues of race and class that are a part of daily life there.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press	2007
	Mr. Pleasant - In this collection of powerful and deeply humane short stories, Jim Ray Daniels' characters struggle to find themselves in a society that has cast them aside. As they make their way under the permanently gray skies of Michigan's lower peninsula, they try to come to terms with their lives, searching for a pleasant place, for someone who will love them or will simply make them feel safe.	Fiction , Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press	2007
	Revolt of the Crash Test Dummies : Poems	Poetry	Adult	Spokane, WA : Eastern Washington University Press	2007
	Now Showing	Poetry	Adult	Toronto : Ahadada Books	2006
	Street : Poems - Poems by Jim Daniels, Photographs by Charlee Brodsky. Each photograph by Brodsky is rendered into a poem by Daniels.	Poetry	Adult	Huron, OH : Bottom Dog Press	2005
	Detroit Tales (Michigan & the Great Lakes) - The stories are tales about urban, working-class America. People struggle both to remain in the city and to escape the city. The three central motifs of this collection are the city, the workplace, and the automobile. In their cars, people negotiate the territory between work and home. Conflicts arise in the characters’ impulses to veer off their well-worn paths. What can they do? Where can they go? What forces pull them away, and what forces pull them back? The characters search for what can provide spiritual sustenance. Often, the relief from the drudgery of their daily lives is provided in the fleeting dazzle of fireworks or Christmas lights, but they take what they can. If these stories have one unifying theme, it is that escape is not the answer.	Fiction , Michigan , Short Stories	Adult	East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univerity Press	2003
	Show and Tell : New and Selected Poems	Poetry	Adult	Madison, WI. : University of Wisconsin Press	2003
	Digger's Blues - These fourteen second-person poems collectively portray the life of Digger, the Detroit automobile factory worker featured in Daniels' earlier books. In this collection, Digger, now middle aged, confronts issues in his life such as downsizing, his own mortality, the changing racial composition of his neighborhood, and the trajectory or life. DIGGER'S BLUES is both deceptively straight-forward and acerbically witty.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Easthampton, MA : Adastra Press	2002
	Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars - This collection bears witness to a life boat mis- and well-spent; to the family, remembered and new; to the melancholy pull of drugs and casual sex; to growing up; and to the only tenable way of growing old, which is to embrace every small joy even as one laments its brevity. Indeed, Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars rages not against the dying of light but the dying fall itself-against poetic and existential complacency	Poetry	Adult	Kalamazoo, MI. : New Issues/Western Michigan University	2002
	Greatest Hits 1976-2001	Poetry	Adult	Johnstown, OH : Pudding House Publications	2002
	Red Vinyl, Black Vinyl	Poetry	Adult	Toledo, OH : Aureole Press	2001
	Blue Jesus - A collection of poetry.	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press	2000
	American Poetry: The Next Generation - Edited with Gerald Costanzo. An anthology of poets, all born since 1960, who have published at least one book with a trade, university, or independent publisher.	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA : Carnegie Mellon University Press	2000
	No Pets - Jim Daniels' NO PETS brings us sad, acutely-observed stories of people who know in their bones that the American Dream does not apply to them.	Fiction , Short Stories	Adult	Huron, OH : Bottom Dog Press	1999
	Blessing the House - In his fourth book of poems, Jim Daniels visits the sites of domestic faith - Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth - in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in. A sense of search unites these poems, whether they take place on the cement slabs of a 1950s Detroit suburb or on the hillside cemetary of an Italian village. In their search for hope, grace, and decency in the small dramas of an individual life, the poems of Blessing the House become larger, more overtly political. They are, as Daniels writes, “prayers for this world, with their clear consequence.”	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press	1997
	Letters to America : Contemporary American Poetry on Race - Letters to America features the work of poets who have had the courage to write about race with honesty and passion. Speaking from the experience of Black, Native American, Asian, Arabic, Indian, Hispanic, and white culture, their diverse voices unite in a dialogue of poems which acknowledge and celebrate our differences while exploring America’s shameful history of racial intolerance. The poets in this anthology include Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Bukowski, Joy Harjo, Langstong Hughes, Sharon Olds, James Wright, Etheridge Knight, Gary Soto, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Audre Lorde, David Ignatwo, and others.	Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press	1995
	Niagara Falls : a Poem	Poetry	Adult	Easthampton, MA : Adastra Press	1994
	M-80	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press	1993
	The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry - Edited with Gerald Costanzo.	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh,PA : Carnegie Mellon University Press	1993
	Hacking It	Poetry	Adult	Roseville, MI : Ridgeway Press	1992
	Punching Out - Daniels’ second book of poetry takes readers inside an auto factory with Digger, a young man whose initial reaction of shock and dismay at the difficult working conditions prompts him to find ways to cope with the dehumanization he experiences there. The book is a series of tightly woven poems that play off one another so that the book accumulates tension and energy as it progresses. Daniels treats his characters and their work with respect, giving them a dignity that factory condition deny them. Opting for blunt, straightforward language, Daniels does not try to "poeticize" the factory but rather injects the factory into his poetry.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press	1990
	Digger's Territory	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press	1989
	The Long Ball	Poetry	Adult	Pittsburgh, PA ; Pig In A Poke Press	1988
	Places Everyone - in his first book of poems, Jim draws upon his experiences in living and working in his native Detroit to present a stark, realistic picture of urban, blue-collar life. Daniels, his brothers, his father, and his grandfather have all worked in the auto industry, and that background seeps into nearly all these poems.	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Madison, WI. : University of Wisconsin Press	1985
	On the Line	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Bellingham, WA : Signpost Press	1981
	Factory Poems	Michigan , Poetry	Adult	Alma, MI: Jack in the Box Press	1979

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