Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls

Voss' Carnegie Hall is the Goodstone Aircraft Company-an oily amalgam of all the places where he has sweated it out on the shopfloor-where each man has to be a virtuoso able to temper brute force with hair-breath's delicacy. Here are poems about the bastion of male America where bragging men dominate and cheat each other, boasting of their sexual conquests while trying to come to terms with sexual failure. In this tense, abrasive, rowdy atmosphere, suppressed violence, male bravado, and sexual harassment go hand in hand. And when the wounded male lashes out, Voss is there.