Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses - Brossura

Voss, Fred

 
9781739772284: Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses
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ISBN 10: 1739772288 ISBN 13: 9781739772284
Casa editrice: Smokestack Books, 2023

Sinossi

In 1973 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and went to work as a machinist in a steel-mill. Someday There Will be Machine Shops Full of Roses looks back on fifty years of working on machine-shop floors up and down the West Coast – the noise and the silence, long shifts and short tempers, old-timers and pushy young machinists, profits in the boardrooms and wage-cuts on the cold shop-floor, the bravado, the boredom and the comradeship. These new poems confirm Voss as the heir to Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine and Robert Tressell, beautiful hymns of praise to skilled workers everywhere who handle the dangerous Promethean gift of fire: 






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Informazioni sull?autore

Fred Voss has written several collections of poetry – Goodstone (1991), Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls (1998), Hammers and Hearts of the Gods (2009), The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand (2016), Robots Have No Bones (2019) and a novel, Making America Strong (2015). He lives in Long Beach, California.

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Editore
Smokestack Books
Data di pubblicazione
2023
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1739772288
ISBN 13 
9781739772284
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
164
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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