Pioneering - Paperback

by Susan Eisenberg (Author)

Poems in this volume bring readers through the construction site gate alongside the women who practice a skilled trade in a dangerous industry. Assured and impassioned, the poems not only manifest outer events and day-to-day realities of the worksite but also expose through metaphor and resonant detail its high-voltage interior life.Susan Eisenberg's early poems were private responses to the experiences of her apprentice years as an electrician. When a collection of her poems was published in 1984, Eisenberg began to receive letters from her counterparts in other trades and other regions of the country. Her ensuing dialogue with a national community of tradeswomen inspired the poems in Pioneering.

Author Biography

Susan Eisenberg is a poet, visual artist, oral historian, licensed electrician, and Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center. She has been awarded with the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry. She is also curator of the online exhibition, On Equal Terms: gender and solidarity. Her most recent book Stanley's Girl: Poems. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information.