Paola Corso
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THE LAUNDRESS
CATCHES HER BREATH
by Paola Corso
"Paola Corso's The Laundress Catches Her Breath
focuses like a Leica on the details of daily urban
working class life from a fiercely rendered narrative
perspective. Pioneering a mode of tough yet poignant
documentary verse, Corso draws us into the grainy,
grimy world of factory and clothesline, diner and lung
disease and filthy water with extraordinary skill. Her
collection is in fact breathtaking."
—Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Belongings
"This is a song of lament for all labor and the earth
made outrageous with a magical imagination. It is a
crazy, gorgeously-crafted romance of the American
worker. And just the thing for these evil times. Good
job, Paola Corso!"
—Julia Kasdorf, author of Poetry in America
"In The Laundress Catches Her Breath, Paola Corso takes us inside the world of the
union card and the steel mill. This daughter of Pittsburgh recalls the black smoke that
filled the skies of the city, how it breeds a tough voice. Corso reminds us that what we
breathe in is what we breathe out—as she writes the nature of work."
—Jan Beatty, author of Red Sugar
Read an Excerpt and an Interview.
Read a Book Review.
Click here to order from CavanKerry Press website.
focuses like a Leica on the details of daily urban
working class life from a fiercely rendered narrative
perspective. Pioneering a mode of tough yet poignant
documentary verse, Corso draws us into the grainy,
grimy world of factory and clothesline, diner and lung
disease and filthy water with extraordinary skill. Her
collection is in fact breathtaking."
—Sandra M. Gilbert, author of Belongings
"This is a song of lament for all labor and the earth
made outrageous with a magical imagination. It is a
crazy, gorgeously-crafted romance of the American
worker. And just the thing for these evil times. Good
job, Paola Corso!"
—Julia Kasdorf, author of Poetry in America
"In The Laundress Catches Her Breath, Paola Corso takes us inside the world of the
union card and the steel mill. This daughter of Pittsburgh recalls the black smoke that
filled the skies of the city, how it breeds a tough voice. Corso reminds us that what we
breathe in is what we breathe out—as she writes the nature of work."
—Jan Beatty, author of Red Sugar
Read an Excerpt and an Interview.
Read a Book Review.
Click here to order from CavanKerry Press website.
