The Hellbox

By Greg Delanty

Greg Delanty grew up in a family of printers, and as a youth he worked in the composing room. A hellbox is the bin into which printers chucked broken or worn type, and the conceit that unites this collection is the technology, lore, and tradition of hot-metal printing. Here, the language of printing--literal and symbolic--inspires a series of moving and powerful poems.
Delanty writes with an impetuous daring that combines controlled rhetoric with a vernacular tang, especially in the long title-poem, which describes his immigration to the United States and his attempt to deal with feelings of uprootedness in "the continuous sci-fi movie of our century."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192880888
• ISBN13: 9780192880888
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"