The Art of the Lathe

by B.H. Fairchild

Book Overview

B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town life, and the possibilities and occasions of beauty and grace among the machine shops and oil fields of rural Kansas.

". . . James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus spoke of forging the conscience of his race in the smithy of his soul; in the dusty light of a Kansas machine shop, B.H. Fairchild...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1882295161
• ISBN13: 9781882295166
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Alice James Books
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"