The Work of Hands

Winner of the 2000 Perugia Press Prize, The Work of Hands is a sophisticated collection of poems about the intersection of childhood innocence and North American injustice. Anderson's outlook respects and broadens the lives of immigrants, children, racial minorities, the poor, the disadvantaged. The poems are concise but not rushed, the voice calm but never vague, the language lyrical and pointed but never overstated.