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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| Language: | English |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Southern messenger poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Fast only running downhill
- Stream channelization
- In memory of Calvin Purvis
- Election day shooting at Middleburg, Tennessee, November 4, 1924, with excerpts from the November 7 edition of The Lexington Progress and Auburn Powers' History of Henderson County
- The decline of print journalism
- The college of hard knocks, son
- Last shift at the slipper mill
- Empty storage unit in Texas
- Last tenant in the white farmhouse
- Mourning dove
- Rubbernecker
- Making book
- Yellow jacket nest
- John Fergus Ryan asks politely for a second helping of bourbon balls
- City beautiful
- Valentine's Day eve, Dinstuhl's Fine Candies, Memphis, Tennessee
- How to change a flat
- Big Smith brand overalls, stiff and new
- Flyover
- Get well note for Elizabeth Caldwell
- Unlicensed, unbonded, uninsured
- Definition of terms
- In the attic
- Hunger
- Crape myrtle pruning guide
- To Evel Knievel, Jackie Fargo, and Bearcat Brown in heaven (with their complete wardrobes)
- Ghost map of Carrol County
- For Mrs. Marilyn Smothers, grading my freshman essay on Adrienne Rich's poem "Living in Sin"
- Christmas card from Kentucky
- Fortune teller
- December
- Road game
- Shift work
- The shadow of the gardener
- Highway song
- Rabbit's foot
- Research
- Laundromat ashtrays in Charlottesville
- Unstructured play after the funeral
- Andersonville memento.