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The Laundress Catches Her Breath

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 90

Format: Paperback

Release: September 11, 2012

ISBN 13: 9781933880310

The Laundress Catches Her Breath

0/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 90

Format: Paperback

Release: September 11, 2012

ISBN 13: 9781933880310

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