This collection of poems is the winner of the 1995 first-book competition in the Texas Tech University Press Poetry Award series.These poems about a young woman leaving Italy for the United States in the 1950s examine both the small town and urban landscape of a uniquely American experience."Anna and the Steel Mill is a work of great range and maturity. These poems are struck like matches--out of the small frictions in these poems arise gentle flames, but also raging fires."--Jim DanielsSpare ChangeCrossing Spruce Street, I ...
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This collection of poems is the winner of the 1995 first-book competition in the Texas Tech University Press Poetry Award series.These poems about a young woman leaving Italy for the United States in the 1950s examine both the small town and urban landscape of a uniquely American experience."Anna and the Steel Mill is a work of great range and maturity. These poems are struck like matches--out of the small frictions in these poems arise gentle flames, but also raging fires."--Jim DanielsSpare ChangeCrossing Spruce Street, I was bending like a peddlerunder my laundry and three loaves of day-old-breadShe held her sleeping daughter, asked for change for milk, and diapers to soak up what the baby couldn't use.I'd spent my change on laundry tokens, flat imitationsrattling in my hand. I offered bread; she needed cash;we stared at the broken street, as if we hoped to seea table spread with laundered white, with knives and basketsready for the strong bread that, broken openwould release a blessing in the smell of yeast.
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Very Good + in Near Fine jacket. Signed and inscirbed by the author at first free endpaper and signed at title page. Forest green imitation leather over boards with bronze particulars to spine. Soiling to fore edge of page 7; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to corners and ends of spine. Binding is tight, spine is cocked. Dust jacket is clean, bright and unmarked.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman. Also, Signed by the author on the title page. Additionally, laid in is the publisher's Advance Review Copy slip and a lengthy handwritten note to Mr. Hoffman from the author as well as a Mark Twain photographic postcard briefly Inscribed by the author. Poetry.
