In Street Calligraphy, Jim Daniels continues to enchant and transport us across state lines while rooting us in tragic heart lessons and the triumphs of love. These are moving, unflinching poems – brutal and brave in their pulse to assert that even after a world where We drew lies with chalk / and the truth with tar. / We lit our hair on fire / to cover the smell, – there comes a beautiful reassembling of what it means to have people who sing you home. – Aimee Nezhukumathil, author of Oceanic