Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life

By Nicholas Coles, Peter Oresick, Catherine Anderson

Book Overview

From the cannery rows of California to the sweatshops of New York, this anthology of poems captures the drama of work and working-class life in industrial America. It speaks of rolling mills, mine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252017307
• ISBN13: 9780252017308
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

the best poetry collection ever

This is a wonderful collection from published and unknown poets about work, good and bad. I take it with me to factories and read it in hotels. These are all "blood" poems. A treasure.