The Lowell Poems Author:Tom Sexton CONTENTS: The author, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts, has gathered eighteen poems from his earlier collections that are memories of growing up in that illustrious city. There are poems of the neighborhood and the family, of his father during hard times collecting scrap metal off the streets, Uncle Paul getting laid off, of Grandmother Farrell... more » reading the tea leaves in the cups of her daughters, Mrs. Urbanski on the day she has had enough, an homage to waitresses, to laundry workers, and the tree wherein are carved the names of a season?s Boston Red Sox lineup. Most of the poems are free verse but some are rhyming sonnets, and all show Sexton?s eye for the telling detail.
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