What Work is

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Call Number: 811 Le
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	811 Le	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	811 Le	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"Winner National Book Award"--Cover.
Fear and fame -- Coming close -- Fire -- Every blessed day -- Growth -- Innocence -- Coming home from the post office -- Among children -- What work is -- Snails -- My grave-- Agnus Dei -- Facts -- Gin -- Perennials -- Above the world -- M. Degas teaches art & science at Durfee Intermediate School -- Burned -- Soloing -- Scouting -- Coming of age in Michigan -- Right cross -- Sweetness of Bobby Hefka -- On the river -- Seventh summer.

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Gritty Detroit Poetry submitted by sdunav on June 24, 2011, 6:22pm Wonderful dark, rich poems, full of burning and smoke, mind-numbing day jobs, wax-paper wrapped sandwiches, trains and bottle caps and gin and abandoned houses and kids staring out the windows of elementary schools. Many of the poems are about Detroit.

A very particular era of Detroit submitted by terpsichore17 on July 23, 2018, 2:10pm Encapsulates a certain type of work, and a certain perspective of Detroit, that somehow makes me feel guilty about my clean hands despite the impossibility of having done the same work in the same shoes.

And yet, when he moves to California and writes poems about *that,* it's discernibly less moving, to me at least. Nothing with the punch of "even the bus station got up one morning / and moved to the suburbs."