Amadeus Knave’s Reviews > Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do > Status Update

This is some of the best American --no, scratch that-- some of the best poetry I've ever read, period. The gorgeous vernacular, for pages on end, untrammeled, unenjambed.

You won't believe how well-spoken and self-aware even the most common people used to sound back in 1970. Steel workers, switchboard operators. Somewhere along the line our skills as raconteurs took a serious nosedive.