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Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) 1st Edition

by Jim Daniels (Author)
5 out of 5 stars 2 customer reviews
ISBN-13: 978-0887485312
ISBN-10: 0887485316
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Product Details

  • Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Carnegie Mellon; 1 edition (January 24, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0887485316
  • ISBN-13: 978-0887485312
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.3 x 8.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,313,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsa sharp new book from one my favorite poets of all time
By C. O. Aptowicz on April 30, 2011
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In the spirit of full disclosure, I would like to say right off the bat that Jim Daniels is one of my favorite poets of all time. I come from a working class background, and was first introduced to Daniels' work when I was in high school. It was foundation-shaking: he was a poet who spoke about what it was like to be from neighborhoods like mine, with a dad like my dad, with a family & community like I had.

His early books center around both his own working class upbringing and his experiences working in a local auto factory. The poems were visceral, blunt but not without beauty. The way in which they spoke about hope and limitation, of strength and weakness, of the reality of the body and the reality of the spirit, had a profound effect on me as a writer as well as me as a person. As Daniels continued to write and develop, he left the factory life and began working as a professor, and his poetry began to deal with this new reality, as well as his growing family.

With "Having a Little Talk With Capital P Poetry," Daniels seems to have struck a perfect balance between his earlier working class work and his new life as a professor. A recurring character in his auto factory era poetry was a character named "Digger," a blue collar factory worker about whom Daniels wrote numerous blunt & effecting persona pieces. Daniels has found another mouthpiece worthy of his professorial era with "The Tenured Guy," who like the Digger before him, is a worker who is just trying to keep his head above water in a job where the stakes are so low and so high at the same time. The Tenured Guy poems are filled with humor and heartbreak, and the kind of sharp-edged opinions that sometimes can only happen when the writer adopts a persona.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsOne of Our Best Poets
By mrc on October 27, 2012
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I've been a fan of Jim Daniels work since the 80s. His working class poems and family narratives are among the best written in the last 20 years. Daniels is a wonderful poet with great range and deep feeling. This is one of his best books. Get it and read with a sharp heart.
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