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Spirit Boxing /
In Spirit Boxing, Weaver revisits his working class core. The veteran of fifteen years as a factory worker in his native Baltimore, he mines his own experience to build a wellspring of craft in poems that extend from his life to the lives that inhabit the whole landscape of the American working clas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Pitt poetry series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Xu Bing's flying phoenixes
- Workers and miracles. John Henry sleeping in high grass
- Where the steel of ploughs
- Preachers
- Houses of ice, 1969
- The lay of paradise, 1970
- A baby in the crash of '29
- Mass production
- The wheel. Spirit boxing
- Morning shift
- The good traveler
- The bluesman speaks on original man
- Ivory soap, a whiteness
- The worker we named Freight Train & his revelation of Ezekiel's vision
- When they fired our magician
- Knowledge of silk
- Beatitudes, the merciful
- Handling the heaviness
- How to use a buck knife
- Beatitudes, the peacemakers
- When hard men love each other
- Freight train returns from the hospital
- Black scab
- A truck drive from West Virginia
- The good job
- The winepress
- Freight Train watches me do my taiji
- In Mencken's neighborhood
- Wheels inside wheels. When the farms give out
- Walk on, walk away
- A postscript to Giant
- Interiors, a miner's home
- Grabbing lunch in the morgue
- A nation of hands
- Ode to the wheelchair
- Get on up, now
- Whole cloth
- A legacy, southern kin
- The gray mare
- Blood of union of states
- Mr. Fugg's hardware store
- Making soldiers
- Ode ot the hard men
- The hipness of hips
- Coda. Repack room
- Where no good can live
- The architecture of factories, 1985
- Ode to the righteous union
- Dear mystical reader.