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Shift work : poems /

Bobby C. Rogers's third book is an elegy for the ways of working that are disappearing from American lives. In rolling lines as expansive and hard for the page to hold as Walt Whitman's or the psalmists', these poems give body and voice to teachers and sanitation workers, to laborers...

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Main Author:	Rogers, Bobby C. (Bobby Caudle) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022].
Series:	Southern messenger poets.
Subjects:	Manual work > Southern States > Poetry. Blue collar workers > Southern States > Poetry.

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