The juxtaposition of the material and natural world is everywhere present in Larry Eby’s  long work, Machinist in the Snow, where echoes of Whitman and Oppen accrue into an original voice that attempts to find a new spirit and home in “a post industrial world: / When the mechanism fails, remove / ice from jar: an engine labeled Body will ignite / a new fire.” Machinist in the Snow is a sustained, layered and compelling work.

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