Jim Daniels’ collection bears witness to a life both mis- and well-spent: to the family, remembered and new; to the melancholy pull of drugs and casual sex; to growing up; and to the only tenable way of growing old, which is to embrace every small joy even as one laments its brevity. Indeed, Night with Drive-By Shooting Stars rages not against the dying of light but the dying fall itself―against poetic and existential complacency. “Louder, kids,” says Daniels in the beautiful “Cold Seed:” “daddy’s dying.” "He captures... the sounds of North American city speech, illuminating our everyday experiences in the common tongue." -- The Village Voice "Not to read him at all is to miss a most important and original contemporary." -- Robert McDowell, The Hudson Review Jim Daniels has published numerous collections of poetry and fiction. A native of Detroit, he lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program. Used Book in Good Condition