Plastic Factory

by Ron Kolm

From the silence of the industrial countryside, Kolm has written an elegy for time wasted through work. The Plastic Factory accumulates its power through attention to detail and process. The botched life of the narrator takes on a certain sad grandeur.

- Thomas McGonigle, author of Going to Patchogue

Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Ron Kolm is an American poet, editor, activist and bookseller, based in New York City. Kolm came to New York in 1970 and got a job at the Strand bookstore, where he worked with Tom Verlaine and Patti Smith

Reviews

[rndgmoat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Probably the closest thing to a perfect work of short fiction, this thing manages to perfectly encapsulate what it feels like to be on the fringes of American capitalism, to devote your life to a job that destroys body and soul. Stunning.