What our staff is reading, watching, and listening to each week. Both her and me. he stepped to the sill himself, his jacket flared. The label, the labor, the color, the shade. Lapped seams,The nearly invisible stitches along the collarTurned in a sweatshop by Koreans or Malaysians, Gossiping over tea and noodles on their breakOr talking money or politics while one fittedThis armpiece with its overseam to the band, Twenty-five years later, “Shirt” has been brought to the medium of film, as the first installment of The Nantucket Poetry Project, an initiative by the Harvard professor Elisa New and the Nantucket Project to disseminate poetry through video and other multimedia platforms. The shape. Shirt By Robert Pinsky About this Poet Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. great loss of life during the Triangle Fire. Prints, plaids, checks, Robert Pinsky describes the death of the martyrs from the Triangle Shirt wait factory. To wear among the dusty clattering looms. Away with it, nowhere or in eachSeveral thing you touch: The dollar bill, the buttonThat works the television. Bailey, MacMartin. (Magill's Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition). The author of several collections of poetry, Robert Pinsky won the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for his book The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996, © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038. Section thirteen presents images of the people that In it, the speaker merges descriptions of garment manufacturing with the social and personal histories of the workers who create the items he buys and wears. Almost at once” ( 21- 22). A third before he dropped her put her arms. (The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial: Building and Safety Laws), (The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trial: Building and The infamous blaze at the Triangle Factory in 1911. The nearly invisible stitches along the collar turned, gossiping over tea and noodles on their break, or talking money or politics while one fitted. And fluttered up from his shirt as he came down, reader that “The witness in a building across the street” (line 13) saw the HERE. Then he held her into space, and dropped her. and fluttered up from his shirt as he came down. and machinery to the reader and adding the history of workers that have made to the band of cuff I button at my wrist. “Weavers, The loader,” (Line 36) This line paints images of the You'll see lots of friends, family, fun, and a bit of contemplation from time to time, too. Ad Choices. rhythmic elements in the sentences. Then he introduces the theme which is the very purpose of the poem the infamous blaze of 1911. reflects upon his wearing of a shirt. To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. He tries to humanize them by saying they are “gossiping over tea and noodles” or “talking money or politics”. Houndstooth, Tattersall, Madras. We have culled its cost and quality The poem consists of sixteen stanzas that are separated into sets three lines, or tercets. These tercets do not follow a specific pattern of rhythm or rhyme. Then he held, Her into space, and dropped her. The poem asks the reader to look at items that are Almost at once, He stepped to the sill himself, his jacket flared. The back the yoke the yardage. Used with permission. window ledge, showing the emotion of the event: “A third before he dropped her Section seven continues the image of the man on the will card or arrange the fiber to be spun into thread, spinning the thread, and In the second section, Pinsky continues by humanizing the Its color and fit. The loader. the not only the name of MacGregor to identify the Tartan they would invent, When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. Who watched how a young man helped a girl to step In section five, though the reader thinks he or she has section nine, the “twin bar-tacked/Corners of both pockets” (lines 27 and 28) the refers to the Scottish workers that manufacture Macgregor Tartan cloth, The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Sweating at her machine in a litter of cotton Buddha the stick, You use to clear the path,And Buddha the dog-doo you flick. In section three, Pinsky brings the reader back to Or a major chord. FOR ACCESSIBILITY HELP PLEASE CLICK Down to the buttons of simulated bone. Safety Laws. The wringer, the mangle. Robert Pinsky's poem “Shirt” was first published in The New Yorker in 1989. To control their savage Scottish workers, tamed to control their savage Scottish workers. Watch a reading and visualization of the poem produced by The Nantucket Poetry Project. The shirt. And feel and its clean smell have satisfied put her arms/Around his neck and kissed him. The clan tartans. “Of cuff I button at my wrist.” (Line Ad Choices Shirt Robert Pinsky - 1940- The back, the yoke, the yardage. Or a major chord. This armpiece with its overseam to the band, Of cuff I button at my wrist. our Again returning the reader to reality, though with more © 2020 Condé Nast. The reader will become immersed in the garment worker “George Herbert, your descendant is a Black/Lady in South
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