Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses
Fred Voss
ISBN 10: 1739772288 ISBN 13: 9781739772284
Published by Smokestack Books, 2023
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In 1974 Fred Voss abandoned a PhD in English literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and went to work as a machinist in a steel-mill. Someday There Will be Machine Shops Full of Roses looks back on fifty years of working on machine-shop floors up and down the West Coast – the noise and the silence, long shifts and short tempers, old-timers and pushy young machinists, profits in the boardrooms and wage-cuts on the cold shop-floor, the bravado, the boredom and the comradeship. These new poems confirm Voss as the heir to Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine and Robert Tressell, beautiful hymns of praise to skilled workers everywhere who handle the dangerous Promethean gift of fire.
Front cover: Francisco Goya, La Fragua (c. 1817)
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Title: Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of ...
Publisher: Smokestack Books
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: PAP
Condition: New