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Mingling the language of the cotton mill and its machines with the language of desperate love and longing, [Laura-Gray] Street reveals the harsh yet beautiful lives of women working in the unjust conditions of the mills, the earthy ebb and flow of their exhausted bodies. . . This is just some of the best damn writing I've encountered anywhere. The language throughout is simultaneously compressed and sharp, cutting and repairing as it goes. But we will never completely heal from the images and stories of this amazing collection. Nor should we. -Jim Peterson, from the Introduction
Laura-Gray Street
Laura-Gray Street is the author of Pigment and Fume and Shift Work. Her work has appeared in ISLE, Shenandoah, Blackbird, Notre Dame Review, Best New Poets 2005, and elsewhere. Her honors include four Pushcart Prize nominations, a poetry fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Terrain.org’s Poetry Prize, and the Dana Award in Poetry. Street is an assistant professor of English at Randolph College and president of the Greater Lynchburg Environmental Network.
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