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Jim Daniels is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, four collections of fiction, and three produced screenplays. He has received 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. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, and his poem “Factory Love” is displayed on the roof of a racecar. At Carnegie Mellon University, he is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English. A native of Detroit, Daniels lives with his family in Pittsburgh, near the boyhood homes of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino. His latest collection of poetry, Birth Marks, was released by BOA Editions this year.
Gulf Stream Poetry Editor, Marci Calabretta corresponded with Daniels via email about his new book, Birth Marks, his obsessions and rituals, and his roles as father, writer, and professor.
The Laying on of Hands
Their bodies touch, casual in the classroom,
fingers brushing thighs under cluttered desks.
Go home and fuck, I’d tell them
if I was high or not in charge. Lust oozes above
my low bark stripping somebody’s words naked.
Their bodies touch in the casual classroom
of nodding
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James (Jim) Daniels was born in in Detroit, Michigan. Like his father and many of his friends, Daniels worked for the Ford Motor Company and other jobs before college. He earned his bachelor's degree from Alma College in and a master's degree from Bowling Green State University in
Daniels used Detroit and working in the factory as a backdrop for his first three books: Places/Everyone (), Punching Out (), and M (). In his writing, he addresses the issues of blue collar work, adolescence, and determining the role of a poet.
His fourth book, Blessing the House (), breaks away from the Detroit setting and features his current residence in Pittsburgh. "Dear" is a poem in the book where an unfinished letter from is found, causing a reflection upon the adolescence of that year:
In I traded majors
like used cars, testing them out and
then abandoning them by the road.
This poem by Daniels shows the language that Tim Ross of Artful Dodge describes as "Stylistically, throughout his career he has always found a way to combine a straightforward, conversational tone with a sharp sense of rhythm and tightly compressed language." This tone can also be seen in his poem "Factory Cool," published in Punching Out (). In the poem, an inexperienced factory worker named Di