Steam Dummy & Fragments From The Fire Chris Llewellyn

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  Steam Dummy & Fragments From The Fire
  Chris Llewellyn
  Series: Midwest Writers
  Paperback: 124 pages
  Publisher: Bottom Dog Press  (September 1, 1993)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10: 0933087292
  ISBN-13: 978-0933087293
  Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 0.5 x 9 inches

  
My Thoughts

Here’s a book, signed by the author and has been on my shelf for many years and from time to time I get it out and re-read it. 

If you are looking for a book of gifted prose on the working-class you might want to check this one out. Among my favorites in this collection are Reading the New Yorker,  Office For The Dead and Scraps.

Llewellyn identifies herself as a ''labor'' poet and Fragments From The Fire received the Walt Whitman Award from The Acadamy of American Poets in 1986. It’s a narrative and harrowing look at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911. 

 The company manufactured blouses for women and was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building, at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, in New York City's Washington Square. During this fire, 146 garment workers, mostly teenage girls, tragically jumped to their death.


About the Author

Chris Llewellyn is a Welsh -American poet who grew up in Fostoria , Ohio where her family ran a dry cleaning business. She has performed her poetry at the Folger Shakespeare Library, as well as on National Public Radio. In addition to serving as an instructor of poetry at The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, she has taught poetry workshops in correctional institutions and high schools, and for the aging.

The book was gifted from the Author.