Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls

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ISBN: 9781852244736 | 1852244739
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/1999

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Fred Voss is a writer who really gets his hands dirty: he doesn't just write about factory life, he lives it.
His Carnegie Hall with tin walls is the Goodstone Aircraft Company - an oily amalgam of all the places where he has sweated it out on the shopfloor - where each man has to be a virtuoso able to temper brute force with hair's-breadth delicacy.
This new book includes some poems from his earlier collection Goodstone (1991), but draws on ten more years of life in the factory, a bastion of male America where bragging men dominate and cheat each other, boasting of their sexual conquests while trying to come to terms with sexual failure. In this tense, abrasive, rowdy atmosphere, suppressed violence, male bravado and sexual harassment go hand in hand. And when the wounded male lashes out, Voss is there.

One of the Joys of the Job	p. 11
Inventive	p. 12
Keep Smiling	p. 13
Choo! Choo!	p. 14
Coping	p. 15
Improvizing	p. 16
Attacking the Problem	p. 17
Disadvantage	p. 18
The Standard of Excellence	p. 18
What You Got for Your Tax Dollars	p. 19
One of the Great Secrets	p. 20
Lucky	p. 21
Righteous Indignation	p. 22
Who Cares?	p. 22
Fan Club	p. 23
Therapy	p. 24
National Security	p. 24
Memo #68	p. 25
It's Okay	p. 26
The Aristocrats	p. 26
Making the World's Most Advanced Bomber	p. 27
Hot Potato	p. 28
Solidarity	p. 29
Apprenticeship	p. 30
A Learning Experience	p. 30
Cutting Corners	p. 31
Making America Strong	p. 32
Safety Net	p. 33
Critical Condition	p. 34
The Immovable Object	p. 34
When the Going Gets Tough	p. 35
Sleepworking	p. 36
Tool of the Trade	p. 37
Excretion	p. 37
A Company Fence	p. 38
Advantage	p. 39
Graphic Demonstration	p. 39
Go with the Flow	p. 40
Not Amused	p. 40
Honkers	p. 41
Playground	p. 42
Bubbling Over	p. 43
The Mantra	p. 44
The Criminologist	p. 44
No Doubt	p. 45
Thin Line	p. 46
No George Washington	p. 46
More Than Enough	p. 47
Reprieve	p. 48
Down But Not Out	p. 48
On Stage	p. 49
Competitive Spirit	p. 50
Still in the Game	p. 51
Technique	p. 52
Aircraft Factory Love	p. 53
Don't Call Me Shakespeare	p. 54
Self Preservation	p. 54
Rough Job	p. 55
8 Hours at Goodstone Aircraft Company	p. 56
A Threat	p. 57
The Stud	p. 57
The Inspection	p. 58
Lifesavers	p. 59
Soft Spot	p. 59
Standout	p. 60
Cold Nights	p. 60
The Gesture	p. 61
Real Life	p. 62
Open Books	p. 62
Success	p. 63
Green Thumb	p. 64
Alchemy	p. 64
All the Way	p. 65
Each Machinist Is Different	p. 66
Capital Crime	p. 67
Sun Worshipper	p. 68
Crossing Fingers	p. 69
Dangerous	p. 70
Something None of Us Ever Talked About	p. 71
Clean	p. 72
A Little Bit of Heaven	p. 73
No Choice	p. 74
Coward	p. 75
Strength	p. 76
Kin	p. 76
Life Raft	p. 77
Political Science	p. 78
A Lot in Common	p. 79
Old Souls	p. 80
Termination	p. 81
Unsightly	p. 82
Enterprise	p. 82
Broken	p. 83
Doing Time	p. 84
Outside	p. 84
Community	p. 85
Intellectuals	p. 86
Now is When Einstein Shatters the Universe with His Mind	p. 87
25 Vending Machine Candy Bars to Choose From	p. 88
Bared Souls	p. 89
Waste	p. 90
When All the Electric Lightbulbs in the World Won't Help	p. 91
As Chairs Begin to Crack and Fall Apart Under Us	p. 92
The River	p. 93
Disowned	p. 94
As Our Money Runs Out	p. 95
Feasting	p. 96
I Know This Man	p. 97
As Executives in $1,000 Suits Get Bonuses	p. 98
The World in Our Hands	p. 99
Premature	p. 99
Adjusting	p. 100
Control Control	p. 101
Icons	p. 101
Good Workmanship	p. 102
Above Us	p. 103
Cutting Away the Fat	p. 104
Not Impressed	p. 105
Politics	p. 106
Ticker Tape Parade	p. 107
Mental Patient	p. 107
Lingo	p. 108
Fringe Benefit	p. 109
Uptight	p. 110
Our Leader	p. 111
The Perfect Woman	p. 111
Mingling with the Little People	p. 112
Evil	p. 112
A Lesson I'll Never Forget	p. 113
In Top Shape	p. 114
Out of Touch	p. 114
Power Failure	p. 115
Phobia	p. 116
Never Say Die	p. 116
The Vice President Give His Monthly Shop Talk	p. 117
Corrective Action	p. 118
Realist	p. 119
Reborn	p. 120
T.G.I.F.	p. 121
Nights	p. 122
Wallflowers	p. 122
Lucky	p. 123
Feelers	p. 124
Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls	p. 125
Select Company	p. 126
Brotherhood	p. 127
The Secret	p. 128
Creators	p. 129
Upside Down	p. 130
Living Bible	p. 131
Gypped	p. 132
With Cutting Oil All Over His Hands	p. 133
Round 15	p. 134
Battlefield	p. 135
A Long Road	p. 135
Their Dream	p. 136
Making Up for It	p. 137
Providing a Service	p. 137
Tenderized	p. 138
Food Chain	p. 139
Ethical Giants	p. 140
Don't Expect Any Apologies	p. 141
Airborne	p. 142
Another Slap in the Face	p. 143
One-Way Street	p. 144
Custom-Fitted	p. 145
Sociable	p. 146
Showing Us What He Can Do	p. 147
Miscalculation	p. 147
Down to a Science	p. 148
Make-Believe	p. 149
Getting Some Action	p. 150
Getting Along	p. 150
Antiques	p. 151
Eyes Open	p. 152
The $1 Solution	p. 153
Ciphers	p. 154
Almost a Party Instead of a Job	p. 155
Shifting Lives	p. 156
Paradise	p. 157
Not Gone Yet	p. 158
Something Only the Decades Can Teach	p. 159
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