From the cannery rows of California to the sweatshops of New York, this         anthology of poems captures the drama of work and working-class life in         industrial America. It speaks of rolling mills, mine shafts, and foundries,         and of a people who dig coal, tap blast furnaces, sew shirts, clean fish,         and assemble cars. These subjects, though largely absent from literary         anthologies and textbooks, are increasingly evident in the work of contemporary         poets. Working Classics gathers the best and most representative         of these poems, American and Canadian, from 1945 to the present.       Included are poems by Antler, Robert Bly, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jim Daniels,         Patricia Dobler, Stephen Dunn, Tess Gallagher, Edward Hirsch, David Ignatow,         June Jordan, Lawrence Joseph, Philip Levine, Chris Llewellyn, Joyce Carol         Oates, Anthony Petrosky, Michael Ryan, Gary Soto, Tom Wayman, James Wright,         and many others. The result is a diverse and evocative collection of 169         poems by 74 poets, nearly a third of them women.   Night Shift At The Plating Division Of Keeler Brass by James B. Allen Jonas by Catherine Anderson Womanhood by Catherine Anderson Among Elms And Maples, Morgantown, West Virginia, Aug. 1935 by Maggie Anderson Gray by Maggie Anderson Mining Camp Residents, West Virginia, July, 1935 by Maggie Anderson Factory: 10 by Antler [pseud.] Factory: 2 by Antler [pseud.] Factory: 3 by Antler [pseud.] Late News by Richard A. Blessing Condition Of The Working Classes: 1960 by Robert Bly Condition Of The Working Classes: 1970 by Robert Bly Factory Work by Deborah Boe Two Pictures Of My Grandparents: 1914 by Joseph Bruchac Bobbie by David Budbill Old Man Pike by David Budbill Roy Mcinnes: The Man by David Budbill Roy Mcinnes: The Shop. Part 1 by David Budbill Roy Mcinnes: The Shop. Part 2 by David Budbill Roy Mcinnes: The Truck by David Budbill Cannery Town In August by Lorna Dee Cervantes Visiting My Father In Florida by David Citino Golden Gloves, Beckley, West Virgina by Mary Joan Coleman Martha by Brenda Connor-bey Galena, Kansas by Victor Contoski 4th Of July In The Factory by Jim Daniels After Work by Jim Daniels Digger Goes On Vacation by Jim Daniels Factory Jungle by Jim Daniels Factory Love by Jim Daniels Hard Times In The Motor City by Jim Daniels Still Lives In Detroit: #2, Parking Lot, Ford Sterling Plant by Jim Daniels Self-portrait With Politics by Kate Daniels Father Finds A Job In America by James Den Boer Consumers, 1965 by Patricia Dobler Field Trip To The Rolling Mill, 1950 by Patricia Dobler Lessons by Patricia Dobler The Mill In Winter, 1939 by Patricia Dobler My Father's Story, 1932 by Patricia Dobler The Rope by Patricia Dobler Steel Poem, 1912 by Patricia Dobler Uncle Rudy Explains The Events Of 1955 by Patricia Dobler Uncles' Advice, 1957 by Patricia Dobler Hard Work 1956 by Stephen Elliott Dunn Numbers by Harley Elliott In Coal by Mary Elizabeth Fell Not Working by Mary Elizabeth Fell Out-of-luck, Massachusetts by Mary Elizabeth Fell Picket Line In Autumn by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Among The Dead by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Asch Building by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Cortege by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Havdallah by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Industrialist's Dream by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: Personal Effects by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Triangle Fire: The Witness by Mary Elizabeth Fell The Women Who Clean Fish by Erica (erika) Funkhouser 3 A.m. Kitchen: My Father Talking by Tess Gallagher Black Money by Tess Gallagher A Photo Of Miners Usa, 1908 by Brendan James Galvin Ice Cream Factory by Gary Gildner An Unemployed Machinist by John Giorno He Was When He Died by Alice Wirth Gray The Foundations Of American Industry by Donald Hall Machinist by Charles George Hanzlicek Polaroid by Charles George Hanzlicek A Tool Maker by Charles George Hanzlicek The Day After I Quit by Gwen Hauser One Day The Sand-machine by Gwen Hauser Printing Press No. 17 by Gwen Hauser Factories by Edward Hirsch The Sweatshop Poem by Edward Hirsch Driving Through Coal Country In Pennsylvania by Jonathan Holden Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg by Richard Hugo The Milltown Union Bar by Richard Hugo The Boss by David Ignatow The Gentle Weight Lifter by David Ignatow Get The Gasworks by David Ignatow The Paper Cutter by David Ignatow The Aesthetics Of Line Work by Todd Jailer Bill Hastings by Todd Jailer Chester Gleason by Todd Jailer Paul Haber by Todd Jailer Randall Holmes by Todd Jailer Time And A Half by Todd Jailer From America: A Poem In Process by June Jordan Between Us by Lawrence Joseph