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Title:
For a living : the poetry of work / edited by Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick.
Author:
Coles, Nicholas, editor.

Oresick, Peter, editor.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995]

©1995
Call Number:
PS591.W65 F67 1995
ISBN:
9780252021220

9780252064104
Physical Description:
xxiii, 408 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction / Nicholas Coles and Peter Oresick -- Ai -- Excerpts from Evidence: From a Reporter's Notebook -- Maggie Anderson -- Sonnet for Her Labor -- Rane Arroyo -- Juan Angel -- John Ashbery -- The Instruction Manual -- James A. Autry -- Leaving It All Behind -- Business Is Bad, I -- Business Is Bad, II -- On Firing a Salesman -- Executive Health -- Retirement Party -- Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Excerpt from A Song of Survival -- There's Me -- Lenore Balliro -- French Restaurant, 1982 -- Walter Bargen -- Heavenly Host -- What We Want to Hear -- Thomas Hill Power Plant Car Pool -- Another Hour -- Jane Barnes -- Right Now -- Dorothy Barresi -- The Back-up Singer -- Jackie Bartley -- The Midnight Tech's Meditation -- Jan Beatty -- A Waitress's Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don't Waste My Time -- Judith Berke -- Ms -- Karen Brodine -- Excerpts from Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking -- David Budbill -- Jeanie -- Michael J. Bugeja -- Hove -- Deb Casey.
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