Shift work : poems / Bobby C. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Bobby C. (Bobby Caudle), author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Southern messenger poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manual work--Southern States--Poetry.

Manual work.

Blue collar workers--Southern States--Poetry.

Blue collar workers.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 77 pages; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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 on production lines sewing shirts and making shoes when manufacturing still meant made by hand, to weekend tree surgeons, nurse's aides, and professional wrestlers-all of them "being bent by their work like leather on a last." Set in the towns and weathered cityscapes of the upper South, the verse narratives of Shift Work seine hidden lives out of silty depths of experience and loss, offering a study of how they may be caught up in words knotted from human breath and handed on in some presentable condition still wet with the truth"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 Carroll 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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Rogers, Bobby C. (Bobby Caudle) Shift work

ISBN:

9780807176207

0807176206

OCLC:

1257315341