This National Book Award-winning collection of poems is a celebration of American workers, who toil on the nation's furnaces, loading docks, assembly lines and slag heaps. Philip Levine's starkly beautiful, often darkly humourous writing puts the mark of individuality on each man or woman's repetitive, dehumanizing labour, and is a compassionate song of both courage and hope. What Work Is scintillates; deeply moving - but free of cloying sentiment - it is a look at the people who every day rebuild America. | What Work Is by Philip Levine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters