{"product_id":"what-work-is-poems-0679740589-used","title":"What Work Is: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0679740589\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Levine, Philip\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Book Award in 1991This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and loading docks at places with unglamorous names like Brass Craft or Feinberg and Breslins First-Rate Plumbing and Plating. Only Studs Terkels Working approaches the pathos and beauty of this book. But Levines characters are also significant for their inner lives, not merely their jobs. They are unusually artistic, living at the borders of dreams. One reads The Tempest slowly to himself; another ponders a diagonal chalk line drawn by his teacher to suggest a triangle, the roof of a barn, or the mysterious separation of the dark from the dark. What Work Is ranks as a major work by a major poet . . . very accessible and utterly American in tone and language.-Daniel L. Guillory, Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52338696028448,"sku":"USED0679740589","price":40.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61hWuNGbIKL.jpg?v=1789104385","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/what-work-is-poems-0679740589-used","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}