Rosenfeld worked in New York’s garment shops, and these poems speak from inside them: the roaring machines that turn a man into a machine, the father who sees his boy only asleep, despair, the candle seller, and the nightingale singing to the workman. They are translated from Yiddish by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank.
Powerful protest poetry from the immigrant labour movement, still raw a century later. Download the free EPUB.