Overtime by Joseph Millar

Madeline DeFrees recommends
Overtime, poems by Joseph Millar: "Take a sensibility of remarkable delicacy and precision, immerse it in the abrasive, often violent atmosphere of twentieth-century blue-collar America, and what you get is a chronicle of drink, debt, and divorce: a story not unlike that of Raymond Carver. Joseph Millar's
Overtime includes some of the best poems about work since Philip Levine's. In some remarkable 'portrait poems,' the reader is introduced to the poet's father and to characters whose lives are furnished with the staples of poverty: secondhand clothes, bad food, worry, and broken-down cars." (Eastern Washington)