Blessing the House - Paperback

by Jim Daniels (Author)

Jim Daniels' Blessing the House visits the sites of domestic faith - Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth - in an attempt to witness a world worth believing in. In their search for hope, grace, and decency in the small dramas of an individual life, these poems become larger, more overtly political and express a genuine interest in human emotion.

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In his fourth book of poems, Jim Daniels visits the sites of domestic faith-Catholic schools, sex and marriage, childbirth-in an attempt to witness a world believing in. A sense of search unites these problems, whether they take place on the cement slabs of a 1950s Detroit suburb or on the hillside cometary of an Italian village. In their search for hope, grace, and decency in the small dramas of an individual life, the poems of Blessing the House became larger, more overtly political.

Author Biography

Jim Daniels has published four books of poetry, as well as six chapbooks. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. A native of Detroit, Daniels is currently a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, where he directs the creative writing program.