"Bobby C. Rogers's third book is an elegy for the ways of working that are disappearing from American lives. In rolling lines as expansive and hard for the page to hold as Walt Whitman's or the psalmists', these poems give body and voice to teachers and sanitation workers, to laborers on production lines sewing shirts and making shoes when manufacturing still meant made by hand, to weekend tree surgeons, nurse's aides, and professional wrestlers-all of them "being bent by their work like leather on a last." Set in the towns ...
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"Bobby C. Rogers's third book is an elegy for the ways of working that are disappearing from American lives. In rolling lines as expansive and hard for the page to hold as Walt Whitman's or the psalmists', these poems give body and voice to teachers and sanitation workers, to laborers on production lines sewing shirts and making shoes when manufacturing still meant made by hand, to weekend tree surgeons, nurse's aides, and professional wrestlers-all of them "being bent by their work like leather on a last." Set in the towns and weathered cityscapes of the upper South, the verse narratives of Shift Work seine hidden lives out of silty depths of experience and loss, offering a study of how they may be caught up in words knotted from human breath and handed on in some presentable condition still wet with the truth"--
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 90 p. Southern Messenger Poets. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 90 p. Southern Messenger Poets. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 90 p. Southern Messenger Poets. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.