num_pages: 80
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Art of the Lathe
titlecomplete: The Art of the Lathe
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 364
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: California Book Award
category: Poetry (Silver), awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: William Carlos Williams Award
publisher: Alice James Books