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The Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781885635471)
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xPublished by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry What does it mean to work in the age of the cubicle? The Business takes on the modern workplace with sharp-witted poems that sting like a paper cut. A former secretary, Stephanie Lenox positions herself as a poetic note-taker of the mundane. Organized by the classical components of Greek tragedy, these poems enact the relationships, heartbreaks, and small heroic efforts that make up our working lives. Think there's nothing poetic about annoying coworkers, endless meetings, and stained coffee mugs? Think again. While tragedy provides the organizational structure for this collection, humor plays a central role. This collection transforms office politics and paper clips into a funny and critical examination of the mortal rat race. If you've ever been fired, let go, unemployed, underemployed, or overlooked, these poems are for you. Begun on stolen reams of printer paper, this book reclaims the hours of our lives we give, out of necessity, to others in order to survive.
Author: Stephanie Lenox
ISBN-10: 1885635478
ISBN-13: 9781885635471
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.30w x 0.40d
Winner of the 2015 Colorado Prize for Poetry What does it mean to work in the age of the cubicle? The Business takes on the modern workplace with sharp-witted poems that sting like a paper cut. A former secretary, Stephanie Lenox positions herself as a poetic note-taker of the mundane. Organized by the classical components of Greek tragedy, these poems enact the relationships, heartbreaks, and small heroic efforts that make up our working lives. Think there's nothing poetic about annoying coworkers, endless meetings, and stained coffee mugs? Think again. While tragedy provides the organizational structure for this collection, humor plays a central role. This collection transforms office politics and paper clips into a funny and critical examination of the mortal rat race. If you've ever been fired, let go, unemployed, underemployed, or overlooked, these poems are for you. Begun on stolen reams of printer paper, this book reclaims the hours of our lives we give, out of necessity, to others in order to survive.
Author: Stephanie Lenox
ISBN-10: 1885635478
ISBN-13: 9781885635471
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2015
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.30w x 0.40d
By Stephanie Lenox
xStephanie Lenox is the author of Congress of Strange People and The Heart That Lies Outside the Body, which won the Slapering Hol Chapbook Competition. Her awards include artist fellowships from Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Oregon Arts Commission. She teaches creative writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
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