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Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest

B. H. Fairchild · 2002 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Narrative poems of the oil-field and machine-shop towns of Kansas, where the poet's father works at a lathe and boys learn what a hand can do. Music, labour and the memory of both are held together in long Whitmanic lines. A regional lyric collection that turns the working-class Midwest into a subject for high art.

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Attributes

Genre
Psychological
Theme
Memory & TimeClass & InequalityArt & CreationLoss of InnocenceDeath & Mortality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Everyman
Symbol / motif
The MachineThe House
Conflict
vs Societyvs Self
Mode / tone
RealistLyricalElegiac
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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