| Work Done Right Contributor(s): Dominguez, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816522669 ISBN-13: 9780816522668 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2003 Annotation: In these narrative persona poems, Dominguez steps inside the life of a young man full of hope and strength, a man whose stopgap job at a California sausage factory leads to surprising beauty, discovery, and heartbreak. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2002007373 |
| Series: Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6.08" W x 9.12" (0.28 lbs) 66 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: My red pickup choked on burnt oil as I drove down Highway 99. . . . Abraham Tovar is a young man who works in a sausage factory and desperately longs to create a history of his own. As Abraham's life becomes absorbed into the blood and spice of pork, his thoughts explore his ancestry, roam the stars, and reflect upon the despairs and strengths of factory workers who live with "the unyielding memory of pig." I pulled into Galdini Sausage at noon. The workers walked out of production and swatted away the flies desperate for pork. Pork gripped the men and was everywhere, in the form of blood, in the form of fat, and in pink meat that stuck to the workers' shoes. Work Done Right is a sequence of narrative poems, told with a lyricist's tenderness and an eye for detail, that address the human condition in unexpected ways. David Dominguez explores Abraham's struggle to maintain personal dignity in harsh circumstances, juxtaposing bleak images of the sausage factory with the hope of finding one's true place in the world. Through his sensuously textured words, he pays tribute to people and place as he takes readers on a mystic journey toward redemption. |