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Rowing Inland /
"Rowing Inland, Jim Daniels's fifteenth book of poetry, is a time machine that takes the reader back to the Metro Detroit of his youth and then accelerates toward the future. With humor and empathy, the author looks at his own family's challenges and those of the surrounding community...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Rowing inland
- Home improvement
- Rowing inland
- Swiss steak
- Wishbone
- Talking by the fence
- Three sonnets: cutting my grandfather's grass
- Beware of (my grandfather's fake) dog
- Prayer above the washer
- My mother recalls the miracle of the loaf (no fish)
- Photo of my grandparents working their lunch wagon at the gates of Dodge Main
- Family relics: the suicide policeman's blackjack
- Second shift closed the bar
- Reading Dante's Inferno on break at Ford's
- Laughing from here
- Room divider
- Hard candy
- Last meals
- 2. Welcome to Warren : I. The exploding cigar tour
- II. Around the block
- III. Hidden beauty IV. Legendary parks
- V. The heavy stuff
- VI. The end of childhood
- 3. Late invocation for magic : Late invocation for magic
- Weeding out the weak
- Letter to Andy
- The Monkees, 1968
- "School's Out," Alice Cooper, 1972
- Infamous
- The unpregnant pause
- Calling out Marlene Miller
- Dead girl
- Homemade prom dress
- FOE: Forwarding Order Expired
- 4. Economic fairy tale : Soft side of the moon
- Painting a picture with broken crayons
- Crayola trailer park eight-pack
- The St. Vitus dance of the factory floor
- Rouge overpass
- Easter Sunday at Hakim's Convenience
- Something like a sonnet for something like peace
- July 20 fireworks during ongoing conflicts abroad
- Quitting the day job in the middle ages
- A game called Rock
- Christmas dinner, 2008
- Economic fairy tale: the cement house
- Fifth of July: the morning after with Lady Liberty
- Summer weight, Labor Day
- Crooked teeth
- Homeless arisen from dead.