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The Laundress Catches Her Breath (Notable Voices (CHUP))
Paola Corso
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Description for The Laundress Catches Her Breath (Notable Voices (CHUP))
Paperback. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 177.
This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the indignity of a low-paid job that she can't afford to leave. The poems follow her tumultuous relationship with her father, a retired mill worker, her love for her educated uncle dying of cancer, and her escape from this soiled life through her ritual of doing laundry.
This powerful collection of poetry features a chain-smoking, working-class Italian American woman struggling to support herself and find meaningful work in a depressed mill town. She endures the indignity of a low-paid job that she can't afford to leave. The poems follow her tumultuous relationship with her father, a retired mill worker, her love for her educated uncle dying of cancer, and her escape from this soiled life through her ritual of doing laundry.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
CavanKerry Press United States
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Fort Lee, United States
ISBN
9781933880310
SKU
V9781933880310
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Ref
99-1
About Paola Corso
Paola Corso is an award-winning author of seven books of poetry and fiction set in her native Pittsburgh.
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