Poetry. B.H. Fairchild risks ugliness to find poetry -- yet the ease with which these poems reveal the music in the earthbound cadence of factory life is thrilling and utterly convincing -- National Book Awards Judges' Citation. Fairchild has been compared to Philip Levine and James Wright for his skillful representation of the minds and imaginations of ordinary American working people. As the PN Review states, Fairchild's poems recover an America from which we have always turned our backs.