Book Information
Pioneering
Poems from the Construction Site
Susan Eisenberg
Paper, 1998 ISBN: 978-0-8014-8526-8
$ 16.95 £10.50
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.
About the Author
Susan Eisenberg's book We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction will be published this season by Cornell.
Subject Areas
Industrial and Labor Relations
"Original Fiction, Poetry & Drama"
