Sleeping Through the Graveyard Shift

by Al Maginnes

Book Overview

"Like the workers in his poems - graveyard waitresses, steel men, hot tar roofers - 'whose art is perseverance, ' Maginnes the poet always shows up. In poems where a trimmed fingernail means more than the moon, he casts a wary eye on America, but never disowns it. Tempted, he never quite surrenders to pessimism, always just beating the count, rising to the 'voice willing itself to go on, ' punching the Poetry card. His 'people' may be 'projects /...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952485010
• ISBN13: 9781952485015
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Redhawk Publications
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"