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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Robert Pinsky, Shirt, 2002

Robert Pinsky

Shirt, 2002
Winnetka, IL: Vixen Press
One of 135 copies. Signed by Pinsky at the half-title; signed by Louise Glück at the end of her Introduction and by Seidenberg, the illustrator and printer, at the colophon.
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Robert Pinsky, Shirt, 2002
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Octavo. (23)pp. Caryl Seidenberg’s drawings, reproduced here by polymer plates, depict the simple domestic beauty of sewing materials and, by harsh contrast, semi-abstract visions of the victims of the Triangle...
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Octavo. (23)pp. Caryl Seidenberg’s drawings, reproduced here by polymer plates, depict the simple domestic beauty of sewing materials and, by harsh contrast, semi-abstract visions of the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Pinsky’s celebrated poem likewise addresses the injustice of such industrialized and dehumanizing work, beginning and ending with tallies of garment instruments and makers, but centering, literally, the horror of workers, largely immigrant women, killed because of unsafe working conditions imposed by their employers. Pinsky briefly but insistently links the experience of the Triangle Factory workers to modern sweatshops staffed by “Koreans or Malaysians” or other underpaid and obfuscated worker classes. Pinsky, here with visual supplement from Seidenberg, grapples with chaos, form, injustice, and the obligation of the witness and the survivor. 
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