{"product_id":"papermill-poems-1927-35-paperback-softback-9780252072000","title":"PAPERMILL; Poems, 1927-35 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780252072000","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePAPERMILL\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoems, 1927-35\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Kalar (Author), Ted Genoways (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252072000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 November 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e88 pages\u003cbr\u003e21 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.141 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eUnlike many of the protest poets of the Depression era, Joseph Kalar lived the workingman's life he wrote about. Though he produced some of the finest social protest writing of his era, the circumstances of Kalar's life--his tireless work in the unions, his long hours at the mill--meant that he wrote only occasionally and never published a book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapermill is Kalar's most famous poem, a stark description of a shut-down factory. First published in 1931, the poem was praised by Max Eastman as \"the rarest jewel so far produced by the ferment in America called proletarian poetry--and it is pure art.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStink from papermill, sulfer dioxide,\u003cbr\u003eburns the nose and wreathes the mind\u003cbr\u003ewith thoughts of beaters to be filled\u003cbr\u003epumping jordans, swish swish of hot rolls,\u003cbr\u003epaper to be made, the crash of spruce,\u003cbr\u003efurred brances stabbing here and there,\u003cbr\u003ethe arm caught pulpy in the rolls,\u003cbr\u003ethe finger, lost . . .\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520560820504,"sku":"9780252072000","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/papermill-poems-1927-35-paperback-softback-9780252072000","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}