The poems in Gun/Shy deal with the emotional weight of making do.
Tinged with both the regrets and wisdom of aging, Jim Daniels's
poems measure the wages of love in a changing world with its
vanishing currency. He explores the effects of family work-putting
children to bed, leading parents to their final resting places-and
what is lost and gained in those exertions. Childhood and
adolescence are examined, through both looking back on his own
childhood and on that of his children. While his personal death
count rises, Daniels reflects on his own mortality. He finds solace
in small miracles-his mother stretching the budget to feed five
children with ""hamburger surprise"" and potato skins, his children
collecting stones and crabapples as if they were gold coins.
Daniels, as he always has, carries the anchor of Detroit with him,
the weight both a comfort and a burden. He explores race, white
privilege, and factory work. Eight Mile Road, a fraught border,
pulses with division, and the echoes of music, singing through
Detroit's soiled but solid heart, resonate in these poems. His
first long poem in many years, ""Gun/Shy,"" centers the book.
Through the personas of several characters, Daniels dives into
America's gun culture and the violent gulf between the fearful and
the feared. Throughout, he seeks connection in likely and unlikely
places: a river rising after spring rain and searchlights crossing
the night sky. Comets and cloudy skies. Cement ponds and the Garden
of Eden. Adolescence and death. Wounds physical and psychic.
Disguises and more disguises. These are the myths we memorize to
help us sleep at night, those that keep us awake and trembling.
Daniels's accessible language, subtlety, and deftness make this
collection one that belongs on every poetry reader's shelf.
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