About This Book
A collection of poems that blend outspoken social protest and regional portraiture, alternating fiery calls for revolt and empathic sketches of rural working life. The poems address war, class tensions, labor rights, religious doubt, patriotism and personal longing, sometimes using local dialect and direct voice to give working-class perspectives. Short lyrics, dramatic monologues and reflective pieces range from militant exhortation to intimate remembrance, often criticizing elites and urging collective sacrifice or action while mourning loss and exile. The tone shifts between combative, elegiac, and defiant, centering ordinary people's resilience and moral claims.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"England and Yesterday": A Book of Short Poems
by Louise Imogen Guiney
"Excelsior"
by Bret Harte
"Horse Sense" in Verses Tense
by Walt Mason
"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
"Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls
by Alice Lewis Richards
"Soitto on suruista tehty" / Historiallisia runoelmia: I. Pilatus. II. Piispa Tuomas.
by Antti Mäkinen