Poetry
74 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-74-2
Paper: $14.95 |
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Joseph Millar's poems come out of the American landscape like runaway diesel trucks loaded with miners, electricians, waitresses, ditch diggers, mechanics, factory workers, the homeless, the hopeless, and the lost. These are the voices poetry has classically ignored, finally speaking to us through Millar's expertly detailed lines. Here is the poetry of labor, its dignity, pain, pathos, and oppression rendered in poems so tight they tick like clocks, or bombs.
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"Millar can ride a poem into some wildly imaginative territory, and he knows how to sound the blue note at just the right moment. His impulse is to tell a story, but he never forgets, as a poet, to tell it one line at a time."
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| "Take a sensibility of remarkable delicacy and precision, immerse it in the abrasive, often violent, atmosphere of 20th century blue-collar America, and what you get is a chronicle of drink, debt, and divorce. Joseph Millar's Overtime includes some of the best poems about work since Phillip Levine's. This is a first book of unusual maturity and promise." |
