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...
Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assure...
"For my very first day in union construction I was sent to a bank in downtown Boston where a journeyman needed a hand pulling wire. Arriving early with my new tools and pouch, I knocked on the glass door in the high-rise lobby and explained to the guard that I was a new apprentice working for the electrical contractor. He refused to let me in. So I sat down on the tile floor, my backpack and toolpouch beside me, and waited for the man whose name I had written down alongside the address and directions on a piece of paper: Dan. The guard explained to Dan later that he'd figured I was a...
"For my very first day in union construction I was sent to a bank in downtown Boston where a journeyman needed a hand pulling wire. Arriving early wit...
"Angry at how her grandmother erased the past, Susan Eisenberg, in these plainspoken, not-for-the-faint-of-heart, resists the historical amnesia and denial American culture propagates."--Eleanor Wilner, author.
"Angry at how her grandmother erased the past, Susan Eisenberg, in these plainspoken, not-for-the-faint-of-heart, resists the historical amnesia and d...
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Component Deployment, CD 2005. This book presents papers organized in sections on middleware integration, patterns for deployment, QoS issues, adaptability, customization and format aware deployment, dependability, assembly and packaging, as well as case studies.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Working Conference on Component Deployment, CD 2005. This book presents papers organiz...