Somebody Somebody Somebody: Poems About Life and Resilience
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Somebody Somebody Somebody: Poems About Life and Resilience
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$28.99
Regular price $34.99
What does it mean to be somebody?
To truly matter—to yourself, to those you love, to the world you move through every day? In Somebody Somebody Somebody: Poems About Life and Resilience, Danny R. Slater answers that question not with a lecture, but with a life.
This rich collection invites readers on a worldly and spiritually inspiring journey through the full landscape of human experience. With equal parts tenderness and tenacity, Slater weaves poems about relationships and romance, family bonds and community ties, holiday memories that warm the heart, and the quiet, stubborn joy of a life fully lived. His verses draw from decades of extraordinary experience—from the streets of Bronzeville, Chicago, to three continents of military service; from the space shuttle flight crew payload rooms at NASA to the classrooms where he shaped young minds—and distilled it all into poetry that feels both sweeping and intimately personal. Somebody Somebody Somebody is not a collection you read once and set aside. It is a companion. A map. A mirror.
Rooted in the great Chicago tradition of poets Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks—verse built from real places and real people—these poems meet you exactly where you are and offer something different every time you return to them. A Commissioned Army Military Intelligence Officer, former NASA Space Shuttle Payload Engineer, Founding NAACP Chapter President, Certified Educator, and Inductee into the historic Wendell Phillips High School Hall of Fame (Class of 2026, Chicago, Illinois), Danny R. Slater has lived more lives than most people dream of. He has shared this poetic work at prominent venues across the country—from Rice University in Houston, Texas, to historic Concord, Massachusetts, home of Henry David Thoreau—to audiences who leave these readings changed.
Whether you are searching for comfort in difficult times, celebrating the everyday sacred, or simply looking for words that feel like home, Somebody Somebody Somebody delivers. These poems remind us that resilience is not the absence of struggle—it is the insistence on meaning despite it. That being said, being somebody begins by caring for others with self-determination, valuing growth, and building good memories along the way. Pick it up. Open to any page. Find yourself in its verses.
You are somebody.
To truly matter—to yourself, to those you love, to the world you move through every day? In Somebody Somebody Somebody: Poems About Life and Resilience, Danny R. Slater answers that question not with a lecture, but with a life.
This rich collection invites readers on a worldly and spiritually inspiring journey through the full landscape of human experience. With equal parts tenderness and tenacity, Slater weaves poems about relationships and romance, family bonds and community ties, holiday memories that warm the heart, and the quiet, stubborn joy of a life fully lived. His verses draw from decades of extraordinary experience—from the streets of Bronzeville, Chicago, to three continents of military service; from the space shuttle flight crew payload rooms at NASA to the classrooms where he shaped young minds—and distilled it all into poetry that feels both sweeping and intimately personal. Somebody Somebody Somebody is not a collection you read once and set aside. It is a companion. A map. A mirror.
Rooted in the great Chicago tradition of poets Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks—verse built from real places and real people—these poems meet you exactly where you are and offer something different every time you return to them. A Commissioned Army Military Intelligence Officer, former NASA Space Shuttle Payload Engineer, Founding NAACP Chapter President, Certified Educator, and Inductee into the historic Wendell Phillips High School Hall of Fame (Class of 2026, Chicago, Illinois), Danny R. Slater has lived more lives than most people dream of. He has shared this poetic work at prominent venues across the country—from Rice University in Houston, Texas, to historic Concord, Massachusetts, home of Henry David Thoreau—to audiences who leave these readings changed.
Whether you are searching for comfort in difficult times, celebrating the everyday sacred, or simply looking for words that feel like home, Somebody Somebody Somebody delivers. These poems remind us that resilience is not the absence of struggle—it is the insistence on meaning despite it. That being said, being somebody begins by caring for others with self-determination, valuing growth, and building good memories along the way. Pick it up. Open to any page. Find yourself in its verses.
You are somebody.