Making America Strong

Voss, Fred

Literature & Fiction

World Parade Books

Goodstone

Poetry

Event Horizon Pr

Voss' Carnegie Hall is the Goodstone Aircraft Company-an oily amalgam of all the places where he has sweated it out on the shopfloor-where each man has to be a virtuoso able to temper brute force with hair-breath's delicacy. Here are poems about the bastion of male America where bragging men dominate and cheat each other, boasting of their sexual conquests while trying to come to terms with sexual failure. In this tense, abrasive, rowdy atmosphere, suppressed violence, male bravado, and sexual harassment go hand in hand. And when the wounded male lashes out, Voss is there.

Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls

Bloodaxe Books

<p>For the past 30 years Fred Voss has worked as a machinist in various factories in California, transmuting his experiences into three books of poetry. The backdrop of much of his work is the Goodstone Aircraft Company, an oily amalgam of all the places where he has sweated it out on the shopfloor, where each man has to be a virtuoso able to temper brute force with hair's-breadth delicacy. Voss's Goodstone is a bastion of male America where bragging men dominate and cheat each other, boasting of their sexual conquests while trying to come to terms with sexual failure. In this tense, abrasive, rowdy atmosphere, suppressed violence, male bravado and sexual harassment go hand in hand. And when the wounded male lashes out, Voss is there.</p>

Hammers and Hearts of the Gods

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

This American edition of HAMMERS AND HEARTS OF THE GODS, by machinist-poet Fred Voss, was originally published in the U.K. where it was selected a Book of the Year 2009 by The Morning Star. In the words of Tom Fulton from Poetry Review: "Most of the poems are vivid vignettes of factory life, but they are also much more. They comprise a wide-ranging social-political commentary that exposes class conflict, racial tension, and social injustice...In all the poems there is an earthy compassion that reflects true spirituality."

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