Pioneering

By Susan Eisenberg

Book Overview

Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assured and impassioned, the poems not only manifest outer events and day-to-day realities of the worksite but also expose through metaphor and resonant detail its high-voltage interior life.Susan Eisenberg's early poems were private responses to the experiences of her apprentice years as an electrician. When a collection of her poems was published in 1984, Eisenberg began to receive letters from her counterparts in other trades and other regions of the country. Her ensuing dialogue with a national community of tradeswomen inspired the poems in Pioneering.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801485266
• ISBN13: 9780801485268
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher