Susan Eisenberg

Stanley's Girl (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fiercely lyrical poetry of Stanley's Girl is rooted in Susan Eisenberg's experience as one of the first women to enter the construction industry and from her decades gathering accounts of others to give scaffolding to that history. Eisenberg charts her own induction into the construction workplace culture and how tradeswomen from across the country grappled with what was required to become a team player and succeed in a dangerous workplace where women were unwelcome. The specifics of construction become metaphor as she explores resonances in other spheres-from family to other social and political issues-where violence, or its threat, maintains order. Prying open memory, her poems investigate how systems of discrimination, domination, and exclusion are maintained and how individuals and institutions accommodate to injustice and its agreed-on lies, including her own collusion. Poems in this collection probe workplace-linked suicide, sexual assault, and sometimes-fatal intentional accidents, as well as the role of bystander silence and the responsibility of witness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 84
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501719721
• Artikelnr.: 56820142

Autorenporträt

Susan Eisenberg is a poet, visual artist, oral historian, licensed electrician, and Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She is also curator of the online exhibition, On Equal Terms: Gender and solidarity. Her most recent book is the reissued We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information.

Inhaltsangabe

I.
First Week Apprentice
Welcome
Team Player
Guideposts
Good News
Stanley's Girl
Point Made
Old-Schoolers
Introductions
White Joe Miller and Black Joe Miller
Me and Tony
Wild Mike
You'll Get Yourself Thrown Off the Side of the Building
No One's Just One Thing
My Classmate Subash Anand
Pioneers, First Women in Construction
II.
Wants
My Father Calls to Say He'll Be Late
Escape Plan, Five Years Old
Camouflage
The Doorway
Navigating Uncertainty
World Order
Place Value
Below the Radar
Julie from Gaza
Poems about Gaza by Jews
I Don't Remember
III.
In Flight
Crazy
Troublemaker
Sunshine
The Jobsite Marksman
Code
Poet's Mailbag: The Picnic
We Pay Dues
Go-Getter
Crossroads in Minnesota
U.S. Marine Boots, 2005
Misfit
Why Dwell on That?
So She Won't Forget
If You Stray Too Far
Power
Fatal Job Accident