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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: INDUSTRY Matches Found: 339 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 25-MAR-11, by CHRIS LLEWELLYN Poem Source First Line: It was spring. It was sunday Last Line: The earth's axle we are %leaving in light Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers 3 A.M. KITCHEN: MY FATHER TALKING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was land working me, oil fields Last Line: Some days now I just don’t know Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Work; Workers 3 A.M. KITCHEN: MY FATHER TALKING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years it was land working me, oil fields Last Line: To work for. Hell, why shouldn't I %play cards? Threasie, %some days now I just don't know Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Industry; Labor And Laborers 4TH OF JULY IN THE FACTORY, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today there is no trouble Last Line: Could stop any machine Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers A PHOTO OF MINERS USA, 1908, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With trees backing them / instead of the pit's mouth Subject(s): Child Labor; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers A VALEDICTORY TO STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkness east of chicago, the sky burns over the plumbers' nightmares Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers ABANDONED ALTMIRE MINE, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: The skulls of miners lie scattered Last Line: Like crisp dollars %riffled for show Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AESTHETICS OF LINE WORK, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: We spend all afternoon hanging Last Line: On sunday, he says, only half %joking Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AFTER THE DEINDUSTRIALIZATION OF AMERICA, ..., by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: My hands hold, my father's solder the wires Last Line: He waves and waves zealously %until a man turns - a man %with my face, but full of sweetness now, %s Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AFTER WORK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On this night of blue moon and damp grass Last Line: Look like a headlight %moving toward me Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ALONE WITH THE SHOE MANUFACTURER IN HIS MEMORIAL PARK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You bang on the statue's metal knee Last Line: Of red life leaping through the shadowy park Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AMONG ELMS AND MAPLES, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, AUG. 1935, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Houses are wedged between the tall stacks Last Line: Of summer ferns he used as foreground and as border Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ANNUAL PPG PENSIONERS' PICNIC, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: When I awoke it was almost dark, the sun Last Line: As the mill fumed, as the town glimmered, as the star ignited %above it, burning like a carefully ca Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ANTHRACITE COUNTRY, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The culm dump burns all night Last Line: Its luminous hump cries comfortable pain Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AT THE INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS CLINIC, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: As in mozart's sinfonia Last Line: Where are you taking me? Subject(s): Industry AT THE TRAIN TRACKS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another springtime, another dollar. I wonder Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers AT THE TRAIN TRACKS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another springtime, another dollar. I wonder Last Line: As though there were some other way across Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AUGUST, 1974, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: It is a history, of sorts Last Line: Keep the sleep, baby Subject(s): Industry AUNT DOLLY, by CAROLYN M. RODGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting there on the Last Line: Cannot even imagine Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor & Laborers; High Schools; Fall; Work; Workers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports BEAUTIFUL OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those old winnebago men Last Line: I call it beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Ohio; Work; Workers BEAUTIFUL OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those old winnebago men Last Line: I call it beauty Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BELLE'S BODY, by KEVIN RIPPIN Poem Source First Line: The miners in morbito's tavern Last Line: & the wife fell asleep Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BETWEEN US, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was his name? Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers BETWEEN US, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was his name? Last Line: Wasn't no future %praisin' jesus Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BILL HASTINGS, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: Listen to me, college boy, you can Last Line: And it's all because of you Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BLACK LUNG, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: His tongue is a rusted windlass Last Line: Has forgotten how to dream Subject(s): Industry BLACK MONEY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lungs heaving all day in a sulphur mist Last Line: Ther deep globe of his eye Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers BLACK MONEY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His lungs heaving all day in a sulphur mist Last Line: The kino maru pulls out for seattle, %some black star climbing %the deep globe of his eye Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BOBBIE, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: For years bobbie drove the pickup truck to morrisville Last Line: Now she holds her missing finger behind her when she talks. %she's got something new to blush for Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BORGER JORIS'S HAMMER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A landholding freeman, a burgher of pith Last Line: "the mortals who wield them with power and will." Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Gnomes; Iron & Steel Industry; New York City - Dutch Period BOSS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who hoarded among the monthly bank statements Last Line: Where the photos lay Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BOSSES, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The boss who stands behind you Last Line: Are, by and large, %totally useless Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BOYS, by KEVIN RIPPIN Poem Source First Line: The mills haven't pitted their faces yet Last Line: Against any brick wall they can find Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers BURNING LADY (AFTER A STORY MY GRANDFATHER TOLD), by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Sometimes nudging on the bottom Last Line: Hollow on the stones Subject(s): Industry CANNERY TOWN IN AUGUST, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All night it humps the air Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CANNERY TOWN IN AUGUST, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night it humps the air Last Line: To palm them back to living Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers CHESTER GLEASON, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: Here I am up in the cherry picker enjoying the view Last Line: Fill out an accident report I'm going home Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers COAL MINERS, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wake from a dream of coal miners Last Line: Off the other until there is nothing left Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers COAL TRAIN, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Three times a night it woke you Last Line: Your bed was a pool of night Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Railroads COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Work; Workers COMING HOME, DETROIT, 1968, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A winter tuesday, the city pouring fire, Last Line: The twisted river stopped at the cover of iron. %we burn this city every day. Subject(s): Cities; Detroit, Michigan; Homecoming; Industry; Labor And Laborers CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES: 1960, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bricks trapped in thousands of pale homes Last Line: And the curch-doors change into the faces of children standing beside the new trees Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES: 1960, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bricks trapped in thousands of pale homes Last Line: Children standing beside the new trees Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES: 1970, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You united states, frightened by dreams of guatemala Last Line: And drive their cars at a hundred miles an hour into trees Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES: 1970, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You united states, frightened by dreams of guatemala Last Line: And drive their cars at a hundred miles an hour into trees Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers CONSUMERS, 1965, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly they were all rich Last Line: They would have to take alone and without provision Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers CONTRACT MINERS, by EDWARD T. LAHEY Poem Source First Line: Underground we fought the earth together Last Line: And, dying darkly, cooled Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers CONTRIBUTOR'S NOTE, by EDWARD T. LAHEY Poem Source First Line: I rode a motor Last Line: I dreamed a lot Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers COUNTRY OF EVERDAY: LITERARY CRITICISM, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: He was in a hurry,' wood said, 'the young foreman Last Line: He has never read a modern poem Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers COUNTRY ROAD NO. 1, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Red bandanna, dressed Last Line: Is a face of silver water %poured into the air Subject(s): Industry COUNTRY ROAD NO. 4, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: The limits of rising sun, ohio Last Line: The bruised vermilion star, %persists in her eyes Subject(s): Industry COUNTRY ROAD NO. 5, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Wind rattles in the new barn Last Line: The gray deepens above the distant grove. %there will be snow Subject(s): Industry COUNTRY ROAD NO. 6, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: He pulls the door to lock it Last Line: Steak at the sportmen's lounge. %what to say to the salad girl Subject(s): Industry COUNTRY ROAD NO. 7, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: In november, after winter wheat Last Line: He will come to her, soon, %touching the coals of her eyes Subject(s): Industry COUNTRY ROAD NO. 9, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: I crouch amid the jaundiced oaks Last Line: The blanched grass quivering, %angels silver in the blackest clouds Subject(s): Industry CUBA, by LAWRENCE (LARRY) MICHAEL KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: In my dreams, joey, both of us were alive Last Line: You shoved the gun in your mouth %& took off Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DAY AFTER I QUIT, by GWEN HAUSER Poem Source Last Line: Women's jobs were danger Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DECK HAND, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: She settled evenings, the ghost Last Line: Churned in its summer crossing Subject(s): Industry DEGREES OF GRAY IN PHILIPSBURG, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You might come here sunday on a whim Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Montana; Work; Workers DEGREES OF GRAY IN PHILIPSBURG, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You might come here sunday on a whim Last Line: Is slender and her red hair lights the wall Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Montana DETROIT GREASE SHOP POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four bright steel crosses Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers DETROIT GREASE SHOP POEM, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four bright steel crosses Last Line: His skin like a tear Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DIARY OF THE STRIKE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picket lines are for fingers and legs Last Line: Walking quietly home Subject(s): Diaries; Industry; Labor And Laborers DIGGER GOES ON VACATION, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The maps from aaa, the tourbooks Last Line: And he believes you Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DITCH, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ditch, half-ton sections of cast-iron molds Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers DOMESTIC SCENE, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Moonlight climbs above our headboard Last Line: You talk too much Subject(s): Industry DRIVING THROUGH COAL COUNTRY IN PENNSYLVANIA, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you come on a whole Last Line: Just dump trucks in the distance %raising dust Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers EMISSION, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: The plant disperses plenty no good shit Last Line: Acidulate your long johns, jumpers, jeans Subject(s): Industry; Pollution ENDAKO SHUTDOWN, 1982, by ANDREW WREGGITT Poem Source First Line: Now they wait Last Line: No one is sure what he means Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ENDANGERED, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: A pileated woodpecker flies over Last Line: And into a chestnut hollowed by blight Subject(s): Industry ENOUGH!, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: And now they are no longer %man and father %woman and mother, %but 2 Last Line: For life:enough %for dog food, cheap %stupefying wine %rest beyond belief %it is more %than enough Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers EVERLASTING SUNDAY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for it Last Line: When was I young? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers EXPLOSION AT SUNDAY CREEK MINE, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Bodies are laid out Last Line: Like the polished bones of the dead Subject(s): Industry F - ; FOR ROBERT PHILLIPS, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you stare long enough it becomes beautiful Last Line: Or is it another anti-world %another way of seeing? Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Industry FACTORIES, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere in new york city there are factories Last Line: Pumping blood through the stillness of our arteries Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; New York City; Work; Workers FACTORIES, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere in new york city there are factories Last Line: Pumping blood through the stillness of my arteries Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY, by FREDERIC BERTHOFF Poem Source First Line: I stepped to the head of u.N.I.C.O.R Last Line: As we both knew all along Subject(s): Factories; Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY JUNGLE, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Right after the seven o'clock break Last Line: Yelling louder than tarzan ever had to Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY LOVE, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Machine, I come to you 800 times a day Last Line: I know he drinks, %and beats you Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY TIME, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The day divides neatly into four parts Last Line: From another job bores its way into my brain Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY WORK, by DEBORAH BOE Poem Source First Line: All day I stand here, like this Last Line: Each morning you come here Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY: 10, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: O thinking so much makes me weary Last Line: Cranking out the links of chains! Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY: 2, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: All you have to do is stand here Last Line: Whose second hand is still moving Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FACTORY: 3, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Thus as the foreman watched me from the corner of his eye Last Line: Is to check for defects in the ends of cans Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FAIRVIEW FLOATS, by ANDREW WREGGITT Poem Source First Line: Morning begins slowly here Last Line: And they will not go back Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FATHER ANSWERS HIS ADVERSARIES, by LAWRENCE (LARRY) MICHAEL KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: It's early march, eisenhower still Last Line: Over him - aah, crap's like cream, %it rises Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FATHER FINDS A JOB IN AMERICA, by JAMES DEN BOER Poem Source First Line: Following his father, to this land and work Last Line: That burn his seed to loneliness like steel Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FEAR AND FAME, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour to dress, wide rubber hip boots, Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Schools; Work; Workers; Students FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Last Line: To her as she watches them learn their future Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools FINISHED WITH THE POETRY OF COAL, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Too long, now, %the trail of ashes Last Line: Let me vine like a new brier, %tough over blackened land Subject(s): Industry FIST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron growing in the dark Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FIST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iron growing in the dark Last Line: Light, blood - but fill Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FOG, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the air was fog Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FOG, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day the air was fog Last Line: Through smokestacks %into air Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FORD, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you stare long enough perhaps it becomes beautiful Last Line: Our eyes stinging helpless with tears Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Industry; Labor And Laborers FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ford plant Last Line: Them, and they walk on %their fathers Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FOUNDRYBLACK, by CHARLES CASEY MARTIN Poem Source First Line: The river of charon, to the romans, was styx Last Line: Walk don't walk not, on archer's shores, a lightly taken choice Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FROM AMERICA: A POEM IN PROCESS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was a horse Last Line: To change anything at all Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FROM AMERICA: A POEM IN PROCESS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was a horse Last Line: To change anything at all? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FROM LUMAGHI MINE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear father, / eleven days without sunlight. We go in Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers FROM LUMAGHI MINE, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear father, %eleven days without sunlight. We go in Last Line: And they would burn for days Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers FURNITURE FACTORY, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Upstairs the sanders Last Line: Feathery at the tips Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GALENA, KANSAS, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Deep underground lead Last Line: Who has forgotten what it was Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GENTLE WEIGHT LIFTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every man to his kind of welcome in the world Last Line: Amidst wonders not yet arrived Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GET THE GASWORKS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get the gasworks into a poem Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers GET THE GASWORKS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get the gasworks into a poem Last Line: In disgust with discipline Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GOLDEN GLOVES, BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINA, by MARY JOAN COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Girls in fist tight jeans Last Line: Under his stubborn muscles tonight Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GRAY, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Driving through the monongahela valley in winter Last Line: An enormity none of us can fathom, though we try Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers GRAY NOT MORNING'S EYE; FOR KAREN GABAY & RAYMOND RODRIQUEZ, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: The light plant's useless stacks, as cold Last Line: Where it should be. And there it is Subject(s): Industry HAIL TEESSIDE!, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ironmasters and their iron men Last Line: And earn fresh honours for our own teesside. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Creation; Enterprise (ship); Iron & Steel Industry; Printing & Printers; Towns HARD TIMES IN THE MOTOR CITY, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When louie got married Last Line: Their ragged, ragged lettuce Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers HARD WORK 1956, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the coke plant, toting empties Last Line: Or just something hesitant, some father %or husband in hims elf Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers HARLEY SIMMS SENDS WORD TO WILLIAMSON COAL, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Tell them we are %fifty-fifty sad Last Line: From their backs %like wood-worms Subject(s): Industry HE WAS WHEN HE DIED, by ALICE WIRTH GRAY Poem Source First Line: Not president of inland steel Last Line: Of his death, not Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers HEAVY MACHINERY, by ROBERT LOUTHAN Poem Source First Line: What is poetry for? To tell the man Last Line: Of the mind, the levitating blanket Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers HONEY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father died at the age of eighty. One of the last things he Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers HONEY, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father died at the age of eighty. One of the last things he Last Line: I say a life Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers I HAD NO MORE TO SAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw her Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers I HAD NO MORE TO SAY, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw her Last Line: Bus ride, nervousness, %the factory Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ICE CREAM FACTORY, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: We keep our cool rhythm Last Line: Will continue to fall back through space Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IN ABITRIUM ALIENO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: This porch is different Last Line: A wasp arrives in the rafters Subject(s): Industry IN ABSENTIA, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Trudging up two hundred stairs Last Line: I think of brevity Subject(s): Industry IN ACTU, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Looking back now, I arranged everything Last Line: Comes along to retrieve it Subject(s): Industry IN ADVERSA, SELS., by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: March is the nuthatch Last Line: Trees on the island Subject(s): Industry IN AMBIGUO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It is not my son practicing Last Line: Glistening with cellophane %in the sycamore Subject(s): Industry IN APERTU LUCE, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The first pulm blossoms Last Line: As shane starts %'the marine's hymn' Subject(s): Industry IN BANCO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Beneath two hawks exploring thermal plumes Last Line: But cannoy say how his future was built Subject(s): Industry IN BONUS DEFUNCTI, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Sewn behind the circular patch Last Line: Miraculous and lovely Subject(s): Industry IN CARDINE, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It was mild for any january morning Last Line: Slipping imperceptibly closer Subject(s): Industry IN COAL, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: The sun gets up and lords it Last Line: The moon in his mouth Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IN CONTINENTI, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: You've been fixing the car in the rain Last Line: Deciding what it must be you feel? Subject(s): Industry IN DORSO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Light. Sparkling graphite particles Last Line: Something to hold the wall up Subject(s): Industry IN IISDEM TERMINIS, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: On a clanking aluminum ladder Last Line: Shrinking in the rearview mirror Subject(s): Industry IN INTEGRUM, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I've put a white shirt on Subject(s): Industry IN IPSIS FAUCIBUS, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: What he did that night Last Line: Have you ever been through a mill gate? Subject(s): Industry IN MEDIAS RES, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The alianthus I found Last Line: An ordinary tree of heaven Subject(s): Industry IN MISERCORDIA, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The mimosa is sprouting now Last Line: Something in the fragrant wind, %has me weeping Subject(s): Industry IN MULTUM, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The white dog sleeping on the roof Last Line: His slowly sinking empire Subject(s): Industry IN NOTIS, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Toward the end, neon gave way Last Line: And thought of spuming Subject(s): Industry IN NOVUS ORDO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The mulkeys all have yoyos Last Line: For everything, anything is possible Subject(s): Industry IN PERPETUUM, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Say the word when Subject(s): Industry IN PERSONAM, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Mercury vapor drifts through the bedroom Last Line: Use it at the mill, not wish it would rest Subject(s): Industry IN RE, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The thing about this place, in the background Last Line: Knowing nothing of what happened today Subject(s): Industry IN RERUM NATURA, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: The single falling monarch Last Line: I'm not so sure it missed Subject(s): Industry IN TENEBRIS, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: Here the soul acts like a lozenge Last Line: One fine day will disappear Subject(s): Industry IN TESTIMONIUM, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: It's hard to tell %whether drizzle here Last Line: Rain is not always rain Subject(s): Industry IN THE DRESS FACTORY, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We unrolled the bolts of material Last Line: Tie things all together Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IN THE NEW SUN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Filaments of light / slant like windswept rain. Subject(s): Industry; Conduct Of Life IN THE RUST BELT: AT DUSK, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: The barns of ohio are dying Last Line: Something in the wind is hungry Subject(s): Industry IN THE RUST BELT: BALLOON RIDE, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: The divisions we live by Last Line: Like kites tied to the earth Subject(s): Industry IN THE RUST BELT: DRIVING THROUGH AMISH COUNTRY, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Snow steams back into the sky Last Line: Out past hay bales, a snowman %someone has rolled into the world Subject(s): Industry IN THE RUST BELT: LIVING IN THE RUST BELT, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Here, deer feed on tall stalks Last Line: Of breath will grow in the air Subject(s): Industry IN THE RUST BELT: PRESERVE, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Ice presses down on green stems Last Line: The world like a fossil Subject(s): Industry IN THE RUST BELT: RIVER WATCH, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Sitting in the fork Last Line: Feeling its death %working to get out Subject(s): Industry IN THE TENTH YEAR OF WAR, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I bend / over the machine. / heat Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers IN THE TENTH YEAR OF WAR, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bend %over the machine. %heat Last Line: I danced before the machine Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers IN VADIO, by TIMOTHY RUSSELL Poem Source First Line: I will show you the oriole nest Last Line: I give you my word Subject(s): Industry INDUSTRIAL MUSIC, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: After a hundred years they paused Last Line: This day: grudgingly, but alive, and moving Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers INDUSTRIALISM, by STEVE LANGAN Poem Source First Line: Out of my way, says the sunlight Last Line: Of watching her, learning how to sleep soundly Subject(s): Industry; Life INHERITING SUNDAY CREEK, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Twelve years of weekend work Last Line: They left behind, admiring %the geometry of their lives Subject(s): Industry IS IT YOU?, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the giant magnet lifts Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers IS IT YOU?, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the giant magnet lifts Last Line: Your blackest rib? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers JEFFERSON COUNTY SUICIDE, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Her well-pruned haw, the half-mown hay Last Line: Let the milkweed unwind %as this slow-killing country raves Subject(s): Industry JOB ON THE NIGHT SHIFT, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: He is the prince of tin cans Last Line: There is the prince of tin cans Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers JONAS, by CATHERINE ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: We were threshing envelope after white envelope Last Line: You have dark hair, %the color of your mother's, %and eyes, too, %as blue, as deep as ikons Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers JURGIS PETRASKAS, THE WORKERS' ANGEL...STRIKE IN EXETER, PA, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: Draped in khaki, jurgis Last Line: Their black fords, tipped off, waiting Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers K MART, by LAWRENCE (LARRY) MICHAEL KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: Mother is off to ladies wear Last Line: Across the abyss of goods between them Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers KELLEY SHAFT CEREMONY, by EDWARD T. LAHEY Poem Source First Line: In new york city Last Line: Of a dead man's monument Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers LAKE COUNTRY, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Dark beneath the sandy ridge Last Line: Rising for air %and there is no air Subject(s): Industry LANDSCAPE WITH UNEMPLOYED, 1934, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: What we feel Last Line: Our shadows sticking. %what we feel, %no jobs, no jobs, %what we feel Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers LATE NEWS, by RICHARD A. BLESSING Poem Source First Line: In a small town in western pennsylvania, a polish workman Last Line: In pennsylvania, dombrowski lifts his eyes Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers LEGENDS, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: The skin misses bone Last Line: Or a leaking skiff %to drown from Subject(s): Industry LESSON, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: After the last violent storms Last Line: Sealing me in until morning Subject(s): Industry LESSONS, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt julie's hands knot and whiten Last Line: As if they are somebody's neck Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers LETTER FROM ISAIAH ROSS, SQUATTER .. MINGO BOTTOM, OHIO, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Brother, %rain for five days, this late march Last Line: Pray the lord these eggs %of the ground to increase Subject(s): Industry LIBERTY AVENUE, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: It's so hot tonight Last Line: And ingratiating fatalism Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers LIFERS, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The new steelworker Last Line: Let themselves become veterans Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Steel LINEN INDUSTRY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pulling up flax after the blue flowers have fallen Last Line: A butterfly attending the embroidered flowers Subject(s): Erotic Love; Industry; Linen; Love LISTENING AGAIN: 1957, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Ecu trucks groaned the night Last Line: Hearing the dead %restlessly moan in their dark Subject(s): Industry LOOKING AT A MAP OF THE MIDWEST INTERURBAN LINES, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Flashed out like small veins Last Line: Clustered in ohio, %running off the page, %carving the white darkness Subject(s): Industry LOST FIRES, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Coal seams ribbon from country Last Line: Qiuetly, from warm graves, %miners laugh Subject(s): Industry LOVE IN THE COAL MINE, by SUZANNE MATSON Poem Source First Line: Once pulled past the black mouth Last Line: The way stiffening vertebrae arch and rise %in the underbellied dark Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Mines And Miners LYING IN A FIELD ON THE EVE OF MY WEDDING, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Night didn't exist a moment ago Last Line: Up to this music %one last time Subject(s): Industry MACHINES, by ROBERT WINNER Poem Source First Line: Most beautiful when they're turned off Last Line: Things we'll die for Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MACHINIST, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: The milling machine Last Line: They'll have to bury me Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MAN PLANTING TREES, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: A girl walks down the road Last Line: On a door he has already opened Subject(s): Industry MARTHA, by BRENDA CONNOR-BEY Poem Source First Line: When I came to new york Last Line: You need mending? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MATERIALIST, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: If to the discard man's concealed machine Last Line: Law-governed flesh and bone shall not endure? Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Materialism; Work; Workers MEASURE, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: I was nine. My father Last Line: My life against %this survivor's Subject(s): Industry MESTA WORKER AND GEAR, 1913, by ROBERT GIBB Poem Source First Line: Sprocket and circumference, coin of the realm Last Line: Of metals being cast, each half exis of the fallen world Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry METAL, by ANDREW WREGGITT Poem Source First Line: Ten years in the factory Last Line: Headed for the shamrock Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MIGRANT'S LATE BREAKFAST, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Want sum hep?' the hitcher says, and leans in bantering Last Line: That's good. I kin find my way from here' Subject(s): Industry MILL IN WINTER, 1939, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Below them, the valley cradles Last Line: A hot breath grazing their arms and necks Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MILLTOWN UNION BAR, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You could love here, not the lovely goat Last Line: Finally swing out and here you open in Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MINE SHAFT, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: The money was underground Last Line: Roosevelt watched over %the kids and wife Subject(s): Industry MINER'S WAKE, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: The small ones squirmed in suits and dresses Last Line: Settle onto slag like summer snow Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MINERS AT REVLOC, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: Coal has entered their skin Last Line: Tiny wafers of their flesh Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MINERS OF DELTA, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the anonymous night I see them Last Line: Stand naked as diamonds or stars Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MINERS SHAKING HANDS WITH A UNION MAN, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men are solemn and strong Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers MINERS SHAKING HANDS WITH A UNION MAN, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These man are solemn and strong Last Line: The impenetrable blackness off camera Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MINING CAMP RESIDENTS, WEST VIRGINIA, 1935, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They had to seize something in the face of the camera Variant Title(s): Walker Evans: Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia Subject(s): Evans, Walker (1903-1975); Industry; Labor & Laborers; Mines & Miners; Work; Workers MINING CAMP RESIDENTS, WEST VIRGINIA, 1935, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They had to seize something in the face of the camera Last Line: His composition after all. And they did what he said Variant Title(s): Walker Evans: Mining Camp Residents, West Virgini Subject(s): Evans, Walker (1903-1975); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Mines And Miners MIRACLE-FACTORY, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Papa's got a job in a miracle-factory Last Line: The boss, no factory. Remember that Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MISSION TIRE FACTORY, 1969, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All through lunch peter pinched at his crotch Last Line: From his wallet, and say: %'buy some sandwiches. You guys saved my life.' Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MOTOWN, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: The rock star Last Line: Party has driven off Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MY FATHER, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: My father was four years in the war Last Line: I want to stand against the worn body %of his pain. I want to try it on %like a coat that does not f Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MY FATHER IS, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: My father is a small man Last Line: While my father argues with the past Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MY FATHER'S STORY, 1932, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The blast furnaces dead, the cities dark Last Line: Onto the ice house floor Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH ELVIS, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Started late in april the year Last Line: Why, see the necklace %on the coffee table Subject(s): Industry NEAR WHAT WAS ONCE HARMON CREEK, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source Last Line: And the fossils here %are walking Subject(s): Industry NEIGHBORS, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: To get where you pitch the horseshoes Last Line: And the stones beneath my neighbors' porch %are breaking Subject(s): Industry NEW CHINA: THE IRON WORKS, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The furnaces, the great steel furnaces, tremble and Last Line: Tomorrow! Did they say? Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): China; Iron And Steel Industry NEWSBRIEFS, 1984: PROGRESS REPORTED IN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, by MARK PAWLAK Poem Source First Line: Because new chevrolets are collecting snow in factory lots Last Line: But why are the officers of the corporation %rubbing their hands together? Subject(s): Industry NIGHT SHIFT AT THE PLATING DIVISION OF KEELER BRASS, by JAMES B. ALLEN Poem Source First Line: The secretaries drive by the factory Last Line: Except for an indian walking his dog Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NO SURRENDER! (VERSES WRITTEN AT A TIME OF INDUSTRIAL CRISIS), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand fast at last, o weary nation Last Line: Thy fate in thine own will. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Class Struggle; England; Industry; English NOME INDUSTRY, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Along the bering sea coast Last Line: To a dark and vast computer- %driven wilderness: the office Subject(s): Factories; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Nome, Alaska NOT WORKING, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: A man of your experience' they say Last Line: As the beer in this glass Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NOTHING AND NO ONE AND NOWHERE TO GO, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've laughed before no one Last Line: And nowhere to go Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers NOTHING AND NO ONE AND NOWHERE TO GO, by LAWRENCE JOSEPH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've laughed before no one Last Line: And nowhere to go Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NOW, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: Now the silence. Now the peace Last Line: No, he says, I have no story. %the story tells me. Even now Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers NUMBERS, by HARLEY ELLIOTT Poem Source First Line: The sky turns Last Line: Dealing in numbers Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers OH YEAH, THE MINE TALKS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Secrets %ain't no part of it though, just good learnin' Last Line: And you ain't never leavin' yours Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers OLD MAN PIKE, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Old man pike was a sawyer at the mill Last Line: To wrap it at the edges of his days %in the dark and solitary amblings of his pleasure Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ON THE LINE IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, by DONALD A. PETESCH Poem Source First Line: And where is chuck who worked down the line? Last Line: And stood in the middle of the floor %weeping Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ONE DAY THE SAND-MACHINE, by GWEN HAUSER Poem Source Last Line: He should do more work Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ONE SONG, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: It's taken many years to find Last Line: And gave me an honest answer: %what else is there to sing about? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ONE SUMMER, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Years ago the days seemed always yellow Last Line: And sat in heavy darkness all day, trembling Subject(s): Industry ONE SUMMER, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father coming home Last Line: On the surface of the grey water Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ORANGE BEARS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Last Line: A hell of a fat chance my orange bears had! Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) OUT-OF-LUCK, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: The town that couldn't be licked Last Line: Roads run east, west, anywhere %better than here Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PAPER CUTTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slides the cut paper out Last Line: And not get up all day, he laughs Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PASSING THROUGH THE CARRON IRON WORKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cam na here to view your warks Last Line: Your billy satan sair us! Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Window In Carron Subject(s): Iron & Steel Industry PAUL HABER, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: I have worked for the utility 23 years Last Line: But for what, I don't know Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: The petraskases used to run whiskey Last Line: I am making my way %to join her Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PHOTO OF MINERS USA, 1908, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With trees backing them %instead of the pit's mouth Last Line: The artless smirk on the boy %with the high forehead %who thinks he will croon his way %out of this? Subject(s): Child Labor; Industry; Labor And Laborers PHOTOGRAPH, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: Through the rain I see huge moonless spaces Last Line: When my father went to work in the mills Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PICKET LINE IN AUTUMN, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: The face getting brown Last Line: You keep on walking long enough Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PIERCE PLACE, SUNDAY WALKERS CALLED IT, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source Last Line: And rendered dead that complex germ, the past Subject(s): Industry PLAYING IN THE MINES, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: Never go down there, fathers told you Last Line: You stood there wailing your own black fear Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PRINTING PRESS NO. 17, by GWEN HAUSER Poem Source First Line: My machine %is a he Last Line: I think I'll call him %adolph or idi Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers PROGRESS?, by LOUISE GLOVER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Beneath this pavement here, once grasses grew Last Line: As if, in darksome fury, men blaspheme. Subject(s): Industry PROSPERITY, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The big company bought the little company Last Line: Became clear to the workers Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Money RANDALL HOLMES, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: I was the first black hired, and until Last Line: Seventeen years? It's only right Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers REAGANOMICS COMES TO PITTSBURGH, by MICHAEL+(2) O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: All at one Last Line: All at once Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers REMODELING, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: My brother and I open the walls Last Line: Outside, on the front porch, father whittles Subject(s): Industry RETIRED MINERS, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: In dr. Capelletti's office Last Line: He got rich through hard work %ask him whose? Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ROAD WITH WALNUT TREES, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: As I leave defiance, ohio Last Line: To keep going Subject(s): Industry ROY MCINNES: THE MAN, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Roy mcinnes is a welder. He spends his life Last Line: I'd rather weld Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ROY MCINNES: THE SHOP. PART 1, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Roy's house and shop are on the edge of town Last Line: When you touch his hand Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ROY MCINNES: THE SHOP. PART 2, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Stand in the highway; look at the shop straight on Last Line: For the reconciling arc of fire Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers ROY MCINNES: THE TRUCK, by DAVID BUDBILL Poem Source First Line: Roy's truck is an extention of himself Last Line: Act of intercession between reality and need Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers RUNOUT, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Dark day: rocks wept Last Line: Struck dumb in the comings and goings Subject(s): Industry SACKS: A FOLK DECLENSION, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Sacks nominative, %sacks black with hard coal grabbled Last Line: As a winter's evening sorrow, %empty as starvation Subject(s): Industry SEAR, by CHRIS LLEWELLYN Poem Source First Line: Always adding. Revising this manuscript Last Line: Weintraub. She lived %on henry street Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SEEING THEM ON TELEVISION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The miner's wives and children Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SEEING THEM ON TELEVISION, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The miner's wives and children Last Line: That has dropped low enough %for decorum Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SELF-PORTRAIT WITH POLITICS, by KATE DANIELS Poem Source First Line: At the dinner table, my brother says something Last Line: His sister as they touched as children %and let nothing come between the blood they share Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SETBACK, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Past winter dusk, a little drunk, he could not see Last Line: She rushes to him, a glint of earring amber from the blinker Subject(s): Industry SHOOTING NINE-BALL AT T.R.'S; STEUBENVILLE, 1963, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Outside, millsmoke, redglow, steel gray glare Last Line: And killed and killed %and eaten Subject(s): Industry SICK DAY, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: During the night the windows have Last Line: We are given these days %to listen, to see Subject(s): Industry SLEEPING GRANDPA'S HOUSE, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: He wheezes in the next room Last Line: Deep into his lungs Subject(s): Industry SONG OF IRON, SELS., by KANE O'DONNEL Poem Source First Line: O'er flaming, roaring forges Last Line: Hurrah! The brand of freedom, %the iron arm of god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Industry; Singing And Singers; Slavery; U.s. - History SONG, ENDAKO, by ANDREW WREGGITT Poem Source First Line: All the young men thrown from cars Last Line: To the stroke of engines Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SONGS, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: There are songs that whittle away Last Line: Even the stars sometimes hum Subject(s): Industry SOUNDING, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: The porch swing rocks Last Line: Our child coming to us %from its beginning Subject(s): Industry STEEL POEM, 1912, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the mill crept into his bunkroom Last Line: How that tempered the heart of the eater Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers STILL LIVES IN DETROIT: #2, PARKING LOT, FORD STERLING PLANT, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Empty pallets stacked against the fence Last Line: No one can find him Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers STONE MEETS IRON AT THE SPANISH MONASTERY, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, by NATHANIEL B. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Stone and iron are earth made apparent; all we ever saw of earth Last Line: Crates, earth riding the waves, how it grew anew, how it lives and %flowers, how we flower in its ho Subject(s): Iron And Steel Industry; Monasteries; Stones STORY OF GLASS, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: From the holes of the earth, from Last Line: They feed, they feed %the line, glass, industry you, %from earth Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers STRANGERS, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women at rows of seamstress tables Last Line: And for a moment it was swallowed by fog, the tenacious %diffuse sky Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers SUMMER WIFE, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Rained on last night, my marigolds Last Line: And my finger moves %in its cold ring Subject(s): Industry SWEATSHOP POEM, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are thirty-one shallow graves in august Last Line: Sewing a dark shroud for my body Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Sweatshops SWEET WILL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who stood beside me Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Transience; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Work; Workers; Impermanence SWEET WILL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who stood beside me Last Line: And people rose one %by one from cold beds to tend a world %that runs on and on at its own sweet wil Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Transience TEST, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: Can you speak the words Last Line: The open mouth of your grave %knows many languages Subject(s): Industry TESTAMENT, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: After dark, the river glows Last Line: Two hundred years downriver Subject(s): Industry THE DITCH, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ditch, half-ton sections of cast-iron molds Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waiting for it Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ford plant Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE GENTLE WEIGHT LIFTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every man to his kind of welcome in the world Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE LINEN INDUSTRY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pulling up flax after the blue flowers have fallen Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Industry; Linen; Love THE LOWER RHINE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Above, in the castle-land Last Line: Are the knights of the modern rhine. Subject(s): Industry; Knights & Knighthood; Rhine (river), Europe THE MINERS OF DELTA, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the anonymous night I see them Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE ORANGE BEARS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The orange bears with soft friendly eyes Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Work; Workers THE PAPER CUTTER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He slides the cut paper out Last Line: "and not get up all day,"" he laughs" Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE SWEATSHOP POEM, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are thirty-one shallow graves in august Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Work; Workers; Sweating System THE SWEEPERS, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sing of sweepers, frequent in thy streets, / augusta, as the flowers Last Line: And perished in the streets from whence she sprung. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Pensions; Work; Workers THEIR BODIES, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That gaunt old man came first, his hair as white Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THEIR BODIES, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaunt old man came first, his hair as white Last Line: Of doing everything, always.) if you're not certain %which ones are theirs, be gentle to everybody Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers THEIR MARRIAGE/MEMORY, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Their voices still wake me %as I woke for years to that rise and fall Last Line: She'd hush him and promise %to smile, saying this is what %iwant, this is all I ver wanted Variant Title(s): The Rop Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers THERE ARE 23 STEEL MILLS IN BUFFALO, N.Y., by LAWRENCE (LARRY) MICHAEL KEARNEY Poem Source First Line: On summer nights Last Line: We have made with our own hands Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Last Line: They feed they lion and he comes Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food And Eating; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Lions THREE SOLDIERS AT EUCLID BEACH: 1944, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Buddies. In the photograph they are clustered Last Line: They are as vague as the dark trees Subject(s): Industry TIME AND A HALF, by TODD JAILER Poem Source First Line: Overtime is a delicacy gobbled Last Line: Out of their shoes Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: That produces pop-top cans Last Line: In shame, hiding their faces from the stars Subject(s): Corporate Directors; Industry; Labor And Laborers TOOL FONDLE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: After some months, I take out my toolbox Last Line: And see what they're asking Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TOOL MAKER, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK Poem Source First Line: And he's been docked vacation pay Last Line: Not thirty-nine years from now Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TORQUE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After his ham & cheese in the drape factory cafeteria Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers TORQUE, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After his ham & cheese in the drape factory cafeteria Last Line: Through lace. As it always has, as it does. %that bright. That stunned Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TOWARD THE HEAVEN OF FULL EMPOLYMENT, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: Out of love for the dead kennedys Last Line: Toward the heaven of full employment Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: AMONG THE DEAD, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: First a lace of smoke Last Line: Awake among the dead Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: ASCH BUILDING, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: In a window Last Line: A disposition of her life Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: CORTEGE, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: A cold rain comforts the sky Last Line: She travels before me into the dark Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: HAVDALLAH, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: This is the great divide Last Line: Strike for the rest Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: INDUSTRIALIST'S DREAM, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: This one's %dependable won't Last Line: And you don't hear %her complaining Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: PERSONAL EFFECTS, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: One lady's %handbag, containing Last Line: One portion of limb and hair %of human being Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE FIRE: THE WITNESS, by MARY ELIZABETH FELL Poem Source First Line: Woman, I might have watched you Last Line: Of ashes in my own Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TRIANGLE SITE, by CHRIS LLEWELLYN Poem Source First Line: Soaked to skin, look through lens Last Line: Pierced shoe holds a paper rose %stem up Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TWO PICTURES OF MY GRANDPARENTS: 1914, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Her feet stitch the sidewalks Last Line: They could always afford Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers TWO WOMEN AT WAR OVER A SCOUNDREL: W 65TH & DETROIT AVENUE, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Right out there %on the old brick pavement Last Line: And love is rampant %in his dreams Subject(s): Industry UNCLE RUDY EXPLAINS THE EVENTS OF 1955, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We laid the last course of firebrick Last Line: Lord, just like a person. So I quit Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers UNCLES' ADVICE, 1957, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My handsome uncles like dark birds Last Line: Of the mourning dove: get out, don't come back Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers UNEMPLOYED MACHINIST, by JOHN GIORNO Poem Source Last Line: I'm tired of being scared Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers UNEMPLOYMENT, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The chrome lid of the coffee pot Last Line: Or selling it. %or waiting Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Unemployment VALEDICTORY TO STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkness east of chicago, the sky burns over the plumbers' nightmares Last Line: Which moved the suckers when they'd seen enough. Get out of town Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers VISIT, by ANTHONY PETROSKY Poem Source First Line: Almost twenty years ago frank pazdziorko, my uncle Last Line: I never believed anyone could do that Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers VISITING MY FATHER IN FLORIDA, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Forty years, every working day he drove Last Line: Blind. Its mouth gulps the precious, useless air Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WASTE, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: They are c .. And b .. And a .. Holes Last Line: But they are not worthy Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Machinery And Machinists; Steel WATER, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: He can only think near water Last Line: And they can be alone Subject(s): Industry WAYMAN IN THE WORKFORCE: ACTIVELY SEEKING EMPOLOYMENT, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Everybody was very nice. Each place wayman went Last Line: He had just been hired Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WHERE ORION HUNTS, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: In the quiet of the night Last Line: Splash over our heads Subject(s): Industry WOMAN BUYING TAFFY KISSES, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: Perhaps only the wind Last Line: Its knowledge, its resinous amber Subject(s): Industry WOMAN IN A TRAILER PARK, by DAVID J. ADAMS Poem Source First Line: December's wind invades the office walls Last Line: Grains of gold like distant lightning Subject(s): Industry WOMANHOOD, by CATHERINE ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: She slides over Last Line: And pick the lint %out of her hair Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WOMEN WHO CLEAN FISH, by ERICA (ERIKA) FUNKHOUSER Poem Source First Line: The women who clean fish are all named rose Last Line: Between their fingers, the smell of themselvs %more like salt than peach Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WOMEN WHOSE LIVES ARE FOOD, MEN WHOSE LIVES ARE MONEY, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-morning monday she is staring Last Line: Simple, terrible, routine %at peace Variant Title(s): Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Mone Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Women WORDS NOT MEANT TO BE SPOKEN, by KIP KNOTT Poem Source First Line: A friend who likes my poems Last Line: The white stones of his words collect at his feet Subject(s): Industry WORKING THE FACE, by JAY PARINI Poem Source First Line: On his belly with a coal pick Last Line: Of the world's rock belly Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WORKING: THE EGG KEEPER, by MIRIAM LEVINE Poem Source First Line: Riding the fork lift Last Line: Pink as a flare in the snow Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WORLD WE DREAMED OF, by ED OCHESTER Poem Source First Line: The factories shimmer Last Line: As far as our eyes can see Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers WRESTLING ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With crowbars and drag chains Last Line: Leaning over graves like old men lamenting their age. Subject(s): Iron & Steel Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOU CAN HAVE IT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother comes home from work Subject(s): Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOU CAN HAVE IT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother comes home from work Last Line: All creation and say, you can have it Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers YOUTH, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange bird Last Line: Than he is, or I am Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers YOUTH, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange bird Last Line: The waters flow past, older, younger %than he is, or I am Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fathers; Industry; Labor And Laborers |
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