"Fairchild's ability not only to choose a story but to pace it and to reveal its meaning through the unfolding of the narrative is probably unmatched in contemporary American poetry. The incisive psychology, the vividly descriptive diction, the large repertoire of vocabulary,...
Poetry. B.H. Fairchild risks ugliness to find poetry -- yet the ease with which these poems reveal the music in the earthbound cadence of factory life is thrilling and utterly convincing -- National Book Awards Judges' Citation. Fairchild has been compared to Philip Levine and...