Rogers, Bobby C.: Shift Work

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LSU Press, paperback Publication Date: March 2, 2022 Publisher Marketing: Shift Work gathers a chorus from the storytelling working classes of the Upper South. In narrative poems m ade of sinewy, Whitmanesque lines, Bobby C. Rogers composes portraits of dwellers in the small towns, unincorporated communities, and hard-edged cities they have flown to, always packing their past with them, an inheritance as ephemeral as vapor, made mostly of memory even as it was being lived. Show more