Travelers Aid Society
By: Jeff Sirkin
Publisher: Veliz Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: El Paso, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780996913416
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Travelers' aid societies; Poetry; Poetry of places
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Jeff Sirkin's Travelers Aid Society charts a wayward swerve off the grid of received United States history lessons, a wanderer defying artificial borders. Whether Cincinnati, Buffalo, or Ciudad Juárez, Sirkin turns a city's artifice aside and confronts its infrastructure instead: machines and the people whose labor operates them. A plumber repairing a drain. A bartender serving last call. These tender-hard (think Gen X punk) poems also document the speaker's own consumer culture, his service economy. Thrilled to travel (post) cities with this keen-eyed poet"--Carmen Giménez Smith, quoted from publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-89)