PAPERMILL – Poems, 1927–35 Kalar Genoways Paperback John Wiley & Sons

PAPERMILLPoems, 1927-35\nAuthor(s): Joseph Kalar, Ted Genoways\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252072000, 978-0252072000\nSynopsis\nUnlike many of the protest poets of the Depression era, Joseph Kalar lived the workingman's life he wrote about. Though he produced some of the finest social protest writing of his era, the circumstances of Kalar's life--his tireless work in the unions, his long hours at the mill--meant that he wrote only occasionally and never published a book.\n\nPapermill is Kalar's most famous poem, a stark description of a shut-down factory. First published in 1931, the poem was praised by Max Eastman as \""the rarest jewel so far produced by the ferment in America called proletarian poetry--and it is pure art.\""\n\nStink from papermill, sulfer dioxide,\nburns the nose and wreathes the mind\nwith thoughts of beaters to be filled\npumping jordans, swish swish of hot rolls,\.