The fiercely lyrical poetry of Stanley's Girl is rooted in Susan
Eisenberg's experience as one of the first women to enter the
construction industry and from her decades gathering accounts of
others to give scaffolding to that history. Eisenberg charts her
own induction into the construction workplace culture and how
tradeswomen from across the country grappled with what was required
to become a team player and succeed in a dangerous workplace where
women were unwelcome. The specifics of construction become metaphor
as she explores resonances in other spheres-from family to other
social and political issues-where violence, or its threat,
maintains order. Prying open memory, her poems investigate how
systems of discrimination, domination, and exclusion are maintained
and how individuals and institutions accommodate to injustice and
its agreed-on lies, including her own collusion. Poems in this
collection probe workplace-linked suicide, sexual assault, and
sometimes-fatal intentional accidents, as well as the role of
bystander silence and the responsibility of witness.
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