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Late for Work

by David Tucker · 2006

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David Tucker has been writing Late for Work throughout his twenty-eight-year career at top city newspapers. In his poems he follows reporters hustling for stories and captures the beauty of everyday life, lived between breaking headlines.

Themes
journalistsjournalistsMore like thisLess of thisworkworkMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
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short · 64 pages
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