Re: Business Poetry

[cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

My favorite business poem is Theodore Roethke's "Dolor" which begins, "I
have known the dolor of pencils neat in their boxes" or something vaguely
like that.  Thanks for making me think of that poem again.  Carrie Leverenz,
Florida State University

>Greetings!
>
>I'm currently working with some business/engineering majors who have to get
>through a literature class.  I have been struggling to find work that relates
>to. . . er. . .um. . .their world.  
>
>Very Accessible, if possible.  
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>What I'm looking for are poems and short stories which deal (indirectly or
>directly) with work ethics, working people, the oil business, engineering,
>pipes and gadgets, business meetings, offices, etc. . .
>
>If anyone has any GREAT ideas, please send them to the list!  As an example
>of what I am looking for, the last poem I showed them was "The Unwritten" by
>WS Merwin. . . I got them interested by saying that it was a poem about a
>pencil.  I also used a short story called "Orientation" which was in the Best
>American Short Stories anthology.
>
>Thanks in advance!
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>Mill
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