Art of the Lathe

Name: Art of the Lathe
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ISBN: 9781882295166

ISBN-10: 1882295161

ISBN-13: 9781882295166

Edition: N/A

Authors: B. H. Fairchild, Anthony Hecht

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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.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 80
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English



Introduction



Beauty


The Invisible Man


All the People in Hopper's Paintings


The Book of Hours


Cigarettes


Speaking the Names


The Machinist, Teaching His Daughter to Play the Piano


In the House of the Latin Professor


The Himalayas


Body and Soul


Airlifting Horses


Work


Old Men Playing Basketball


Old Women


Song


At the Excavation of Liberal, Kansas


Thermoregulation in Winter Moths


Kansas


Keats


The Ascension of Ira Campbell


The Dumka


A Model of Downtown Los Angeles, 1940


After the Storm


The Children


Little Boy


Two Photographs


The Welder, Visited by the Angel of Mercy


The Death of a Small Town


The Art of the Lathe


Notes


Acknowledgments