Plastic : a poem /
A poem based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labor in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a "post-industrial," "post-Troubles" society while w...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Soft Skull Press,
[2026].
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| Summary: | A poem based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labor in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a "post-industrial," "post-Troubles" society while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts. Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the worker's experience, Rice meditates on masculinity, sectarianism and intergenerational trauma. But at its core is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labor, making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 90 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781593768034 1593768036 |