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"Frost said, 'The loveliest theme of poetry is the voices of the people,' and in this book David Rivard gives voice to the voiceless, unlovely, white, male, urban working-class not through the masks of a monologist like Masters or Robinson, but in the guise of himself, as he was and is, with relentless honesty."--Michael Ryan
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TORQUE.
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University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1988
ISBN 10: 0822954109
ISBN 13: 9780822954101
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: FINE. First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover. The author's first collection of poems, winner of the 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize - Each poem tells a story, of family relationships and the details of daily life from working class Fall River, Massachusetts, where he was born, to the California which he escaped to, but still with a sense of despair and an awareness of life's hardships. "Who would want to die defending Firestone Tire/ and its brick storage yards?" A title in Pitt Poetry Series. 61 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Seller Inventory # 84980