Winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry
Sean Thomas Dougherty celebrates the struggles, the dignity, and the joys of working-class life in the Rust Belt. Finding delight in everyday moments—a night at a packed karaoke bar, a father and daughter planting a garden, a biography of LeBron James as a metaphor for Ohio—these poems take pride in the people who survive despite all odds, who keep going without any concern for glory, fighting with wit and grace for justice, for joy, every god damned day.
- ISBN10 1942683553
- ISBN13 9781942683551
- Publish Date 26 April 2018 (first published 10 April 2018)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint BOA Editions, Limited
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 104
- Language English
- URL https://boaeditions.org/collections/poetry/products/the-second-o-of-sorrow-pre-order