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Author Eisenberg, Susan, 1950- author.

Title Stanley's girl : poems / Susan Eisenberg
Published Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Stanley's Girl; Contents; I; First Week Apprentice; Welcome; Team Player; Guideposts; Good News; Stanley's Girl; Point Made; Old-Schoolers; Introductions; White Joe Miller and Black Joe Miller; Me and Tony; Wild Mike; You'll Get Yourself Thrown Off the Side of the Building; No One's Just One Thing; My Classmate Subash Anand; Pioneers, First Women in Construction; II; Wants; My Father Calls to Say He'll Be Late; Escape Plan, Five Years Old; Camouflage; The Doorway; Navigating Uncertainty; World Order; Place Value; Below the Radar; Julie from Gaza; Poems about Gaza by Jews; I Don't Remember
IIIIn Flight; Crazy; Troublemaker; Sunshine; The Jobsite Marksman; Code; Poet's Mailbag: The Picnic; We Pay Dues; Go-Getter; Crossroads in Minnesota; U.S. Marine Boots, 2005; Misfit; Why Dwell on That?; So She Won't Forget; If You Stray Too Far; Power; Fatal Job Accident; Acknowledgments
Summary "This is a book of original poetry about women working in construction and explores themes of workplace-linked suicide, sexual assault, accidents, and the role of witnesses"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis tradeswomen, construction, pioneer, discrimination, dominance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-74)
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Women construction workers -- Poetry
Construction industry -- Poetry
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
POETRY -- American -- General.
Construction industry
Women construction workers
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017052608
ISBN 9781501719714
1501719718
9781501719721
1501719726
150171970X
9781501719707
Other Titles Poems. Selections (2018)