Trash? Anonymous manuscript poem of 149 lines 5pp in the voice of a Depression-era refugee

by Radical, Proletarian Literature

$150 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

N.p. N.d. Original typescript, 5pp on ruled bond. Typed rectos-only. Light soil; single horizontal fold; Very Good.An accomplished and moving long poem written in the voice of an unemployed mill-town woman during the Great Depression. Unattributed and undated, but apparently based on paper and degree of wear contemporary with the events described. Whether actually written by an unemployed mill-worker's wife or by a trained writer adopting that

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