US working class poets--a few who come instantly to mind: Olson, Wieners, Corso, Kerouac, Marsden Hartley, Niedecker. At 02:54 AM 8/5/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Erminia, >Thank you. That was very helpful. I was having a discussion about >working-class poets - Jim Daniels, whom I've mentioned; a New York cop >named Phil Mahony who wrote an astonishing narrative poem called >Supreme, about a ghetto kid; Levine; very few others here - and >Brugnaro's name came up. I will look for the Hirschman translation. >