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- English
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About this book
Shift Work gathers a chorus from the storytelling working classes of the Upper South. In narrative poems made of sinewy, Whitmanesque lines, Bobby C. Rogers composes portraits of dwellers in the small towns, unincorporated communities, and hard-edged cities they have flown to, always packing their past with them, an inheritance as ephemeral as vapor, made mostly of memory even as it was being lived.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Fast Only Running Downhill
Stream Channelization
In Memory of Calvin Purvis
Election Day Shooting at Middleburg, Tennessee, November 4, 1924, with Excerpts from the November 7 Edition of The Lexington Progress and Auburn Powers’ History of Henderson County
The Decline of Print Journalism
The College of Hard Knocks, Son
Last Shift at the Slipper Mill
Empty Storage Unit in Texas
Last Tenant in the White Farmhouse
Mourning Dove
Rubbernecker
Making Book
Yellow Jacket Nest
John Fergus Ryan Asks Politely for a Second Helping of Bourbon Balls
City Beautiful
Valentine’s Day Eve, Dinstuhl’s Fine Candies, Memphis, Tennessee
How to Change a Flat
Big Smith Brand Overalls, Stiff and New
Flyover
Get Well Note for Elizabeth Caldwell
Unlicensed, Unbonded, Uninsured
Definition of Terms
In the Attic
Hunger
Crape Myrtle Pruning Guide
To Evel Knievel, Jackie Fargo, and Bearcat Brown in Heaven (with Their Complete Wardrobes)
Ghost Map of Carroll County
For Mrs. Marilyn Smothers, Grading My Freshman Essay on Adrienne Rich’s Poem “Living in Sin”
Christmas Card from Kentucky
Fortune Teller
December...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Fast Only Running Downhill
- Stream Channelization
- In Memory of Calvin Purvis
- Election Day Shooting at Middleburg, Tennessee, November 4, 1924, with Excerpts from the November 7 Edition of The Lexington Progress and Auburn Powers’ History of Henderson County
- The Decline of Print Journalism
- The College of Hard Knocks, Son
- Last Shift at the Slipper Mill
- Empty Storage Unit in Texas
- Last Tenant in the White Farmhouse
- Mourning Dove
- Rubbernecker
- Making Book
- Yellow Jacket Nest
- John Fergus Ryan Asks Politely for a Second Helping of Bourbon Balls
- City Beautiful
- Valentine’s Day Eve, Dinstuhl’s Fine Candies, Memphis, Tennessee
- How to Change a Flat
- Big Smith Brand Overalls, Stiff and New
- Flyover
- Get Well Note for Elizabeth Caldwell
- Unlicensed, Unbonded, Uninsured
- Definition of Terms
- In the Attic
- Hunger
- Crape Myrtle Pruning Guide
- To Evel Knievel, Jackie Fargo, and Bearcat Brown in Heaven (with Their Complete Wardrobes)
- Ghost Map of Carroll County
- For Mrs. Marilyn Smothers, Grading My Freshman Essay on Adrienne Rich’s Poem “Living in Sin”
- Christmas Card from Kentucky
- Fortune Teller
- December
- Road Game
- Shift Work
- The Shadow of the Gardener
- Highway Song
- Rabbit’s Foot
- Research
- Laundromat Ashtrays in Charlottesville
- Unstructured Play after the Funeral
- Andersonville Memento
- Notes
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