About Dave Lucas

Dave Lucas is a recipient of the 2005 “Discovery”/The Nation Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize. He contributes book reviews to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and his poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, and the Threepenny Review. He is a doctoral student in English at the University of Michigan.

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Here, in the river’s oxbow-bend and silt,
the muddy unmarked grave of Republic Steel.
Here is the elegy to ore and pellet:
inertial loaders, the quiet of the mill.

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