Today's poem is "Wants"
from Stanley's Girl
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 Stanley's Girl: Poems. She is also author of We'll Call You If We Need You.
Books by Susan Eisenberg:
Other poems on the web by Susan Eisenberg:
Two poems
"Julie from Gaza"
"Poems About Gaza by Jews"
Susan Eisenberg's Website.
About Stanley's Girl:
"Stanley's Girl shows us once again that Susan Eisenberg is one of our most powerful voices writing poetry about working life. She draws us into her experiences as a pioneering woman in a male-dominated profession with the authority of a survivor and the eyes and ears of an experienced poet."
"Stanley's Girl is a blast of poetic oxygen sorely needed in the current atmosphere of rampant sexism, racism, and xenophobia. Susan Eisenberg is the poet laureate of the labor movement. She takes the reader on a poetic journey that excites the mind and nourishes the soul."
"Real threat permeates these intimate, bold poems, shorn of artifice and special effects, that take us inside 'the first girl in work boots and hardhat.' At the book's center, pulling back 'that curtain guarding/the ward of long-forgottens,' Eisenberg reveals the childhood generator of the will to thread these power lines, to dare the precarious path."
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