Description: In this new collection of poetry, award-winning author Ernest Hebert writes of the trials, tribulations, and worsening plight of the working man, memorializing the dirty-face people who put down the asphalt for the highways, stoked the foundry fires, built the rockets, and packed the computer chips. . . .
Brief description: ERNEST HEBERT is the author of thirteen books, including the critically acclaimed Darby Chronicles, seven novels of "life, death, and laughs in a small fictional town in New Hampshire (1979-2014)." Born in Keene, New Hampshire. Hebert is now professor of English (creative writing) emeritus at Dartmouth College, the first faculty member to be tenured as a fiction writer there. He and his wife Medora live in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.