Pollard Memorial Library (Lowell)

Working classics, poems on industrial life, edited by Peter Oresick & Nicholas Coles

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non fiction

Working classics

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edited by Peter Oresick & Nicholas Coles

poems on industrial life

Night shift at the plating division of Keeler Brass / James B. Allen -- Jonas. Womanhood / Catherine Anderson -- Among elms and maples, Moragantown, West Virginia, August, 1935. Mining camp residents, West Virginia, July, 1935. Gray / Maggie Anderson -- Excerpts from Factory / Antler -- Late news / Richard Blessing -- Condition of the working classes, 1960. Condition of the working classes, 1970 / Robert Bly -- Factory work / Deborah Boe -- Two pictures of my grandparents, 1914 / Joseph Bruchac -- Old Man Pike. Bobbie. Roy McInnes / David Budbill -- Cannery town in August / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Visiting my father in Florida / David Citino -- Golden gloves, Beckley, West Virginia / Mary Joan Coleman -- Martha / Brenda Connor-Bey -- Galena, Kansas / Victor Contoski -- 4th of July in the factory. Factory love. Factory jungle. After work. Digger goes on vacation. Hard times in the Motor City. Still lives in Detroit : #2, parking lot, Ford Sterling plant / Jim Daniels -- Self-portrait with politics / Kate Daniels -- Father finds a job in America / James den Boer -- Steel poem, 1912. My father's story, 1932. The mill in winter, 1939. Field trip to the rolling mill, 1950. Uncle Rudy explains the events of 1955. Uncles' advice, 1957. Consumers, 1965. Lessons. The rope / Patricia Dobler -- Hard work / Stephen Dunn -- Numbers / Harley Elliott -- The triangle fire. In coal. Picket line in autumn. Not working. Out-of-luck, Massachusetts / Mary Fell -- The women who clean fish / Erica Funkhouser -- Black money. 3 a.m. kitchen : my father talking / Tess Gallagher -- A photo of miners / Brendan Galvin -- Ice cream factory / Gary Gildner -- An unemployed machinist / John Giorno -- He was when he died / Alice Wirth Gray -- The foundations of American industry / Donald Hall -- Machninist. Excerpts from The one song / C.G. Hanzlicek -- Printing press no. 17. One day the sand-machine. The day after I quit / Gwen Hauser -- The sweatshop poem. Factories / Edward Hirsch -- Driving through coal country in Pennsylvania / Jonathan Holden -- The milltown union bar. Degrees of gray in Philipsburg / Richard Hugo -- Get the gassworks. The gentle weightlifter. The boss. The paper cutter / David Ignatow -- Paul Haber. Randall Holmes. Bill Hastings. Chester Gleason. Time and a half. The aesthetics of line work / Todd Jailer -- Excerpts from From America : a poem in process / June Jordan -- I had no more to say. Between us. Fog. Nothing and no one and nowhere to go. In the tenth year of war. Is it you? / Lawrence Joseph -- Father answers his adversaries. K Mart. There are 23 steel mills in Buffalo, N.Y. Cuba / Lawrence Kearney -- Contract miners. Kelley Shaft ceremony. Contributor's note / Edward F. Lahey -- Working : the egg keeper / Miriam Levine -- The everlasting Sunday. Fist. Coming home, Detroit, 1968. Detroit grease shop poem. They feed they lion. You can have it. Sweet will / Philip Levine -- March 25, 1911. Triangle site. Sear / Chris Llewellyn -- Heavy machinery / Robert Louthan -- Foundryblack / Charles Casey Martin -- Love in the coal mine / Suzanne Matson -- One summer / Robert Mezey -- Seeing them on television / Lisel Mueller -- Women whose lives are food, men whose lives are money. Ford / Joyce Carol Oates -- The abandoned Almire Mine. The miners at Revloc. Retired miners. The world we dreamed of / Ed Ochester -- Reaganomics comes to Pittsburgh / Michael O'Connor -- My father. The story of glass. Landscape with unemployed, 1934. The annual PPG pensioners' picnic. After the deindustrialization of America, my father enters television repair. Toward the heaven of full employment. Now / Peter Oresick -- A job on the night shift / Greg Pape -- Playing in the mines. Working the face. The miner's wake. Coal train. Anthracite country / Jay Parini -- The orange bears / Kenneth Patchen -- Excerpts from On the line in Oakland, California / Donald A. Petesch -- Jurgis Petraskas, the workers' angel, organizes the first miners' strike in Exeter, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania family. Photograph. Liberty Avenue. My father is. The visit / Anthony Petrosky -- The boys. Belle's body / Kevin Rippin -- Strangers. Torque / David Rivard -- Coal miners. At the train tracks / Len Roberts -- Aunt Dolly / Carolyn M. Rodgers -- Alone with the shoe manufacturer in his memorial park / Liz Rosenberg -- The furniture factory / Vern Rutsala -- The ditch / Michael RyanMotown. Enough! / James Scully -- Mission Tire Factory, 1969 / Gary Soto -- The miners of Delta / Susan Stewart -- The miracle-factory / Constance Urdang -- A valedictory to Standard Oil of Indiana. Their bodies / David Wagoner -- In the dress factory / Ronald Wallace -- Unemployment. Wayman to the workforce : actively seeking employment. Factory time. Tool fondle. Bosses. The country of everyday : literary criticism. Industrial music / Tom Wayman -- Machines / Robert Winner -- Endako shutdown, 1982. Metal. Song, Endako. Fairview floats / Andrew Wreggitt -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio. Youth. Honey. Beautiful Ohio / James Wright -- Miners shaking hands with a union man. Diary of the strike. From Lumaghi Mine. Oh yeah, the mine talks / Robert Wrigley