Human Resources

<p>Do not bother to smile/ for your photo ID / in Human Resources. / In Human Resources / no one has a face Erin Murphy writes. Yet in this book of documentary poems exploring labor and employment issues Murphy gives a face and a voice to those who have been marginalized by impersonal-even brutal-working conditions. With subjects ranging from migrant farmers in the Southwest United States to cell phone manufacturers in <span style=color: rgba(38 38 38 1)>Shenzhen</span> China these persona erasure and memoir poems illuminate the human beings behind profits and policies. In Rana Plaza a survivor of the Bangladesh factory collapse survives on rainwater and biscuits / scavenged from the rucksacks of the dead. / Even now she carries / their dust in her mouth. Likewise readers will carry these speakers' stories long after finishing this compelling and necessary collection.</p>