{"product_id":"rowing-inland-jim-daniels-9780814342183","title":"Rowing Inland","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCharts the emotional, political, and economic landscapes of the working-class Metro Detroit community and its residents.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eJim Daniels is the 2025-2026 Michigan Author Award recipient.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eRowing Inland\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 where the legacy handed down from generation to generation is one of survival. The economic hits that this community has to endure create both an uncertainty about its future and a determined tenacity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivided into four sections, \u003ci\u003eRowing Inland \u003c\/i\u003ecalls out key moments from the author's life. The events that inspire many of these poems took place a long time ago and often it has taken the poet his entire life to write about those experiences and write about them with the necessary emotional distance. For example, some of the poems in the section \"Late Invocation for Magic\" reference the first girl he ever kissed and her accidental death by fire. In the last section of the book, Daniels approaches the current political and social standings in Detroit with lines like, \"The distance to Baghdad or Kandahar \/ is measured in rowboat coffins \/ while here in the fatty palm of The Mitten \/ minor skirmishes electrify tedium.\" Although it focuses on Detroit's metropolitan area, the book can be considered a snapshot of working-class life anywhere across the country. Daniels casts his lens on a way of life that is often distorted or ignored by the powers that be. He zooms in on street level where all the houses may look alike but each holds its own secrets and dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo paraphrase novelist and screenwriter Richard Price, Detroit is the \"zip code for [Daniels's] heart\"--a place that his writing will always come back to. Readers of contemporary poetry with a regional persuasion will enjoy this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Daniels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814342183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814342183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayne State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/07\/2017","brand":"Jim Daniels","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48450287665407,"sku":"9780814342183","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca0327da-5b3a-409b-8e89-676420be243c.jpg?v=1777267002","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rowing-inland-jim-daniels-9780814342183","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}