Comments on: Poem for Display in an Abandoned Factory

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:44:53 +0000

In reply to zoe. Thanks for the very flattering comment! I'm glad you like the poem.

By: zoe

zoe — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:32:46 +0000

the opening lines of this should be famous, this is a poem like the ones of neruda’s that all the workers (even the illiterate) in chile knew by heart, and were not embarrassed to recite in public. thank you for this.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:59:49 +0000

No, I haven’t seen that. If the sample photos are any indication, he has a good mix of subjects. I loved Weirton Steel at Sunrise.

The old company towns of Pennsylvania and the surrounding states may never have been exactly beautiful, but I’d sure as hell rather look at a few hills covered with row houses – complete with actual stores and sidewalks – than every hill colonized by sprawling subdivisions.

By: Karen Weyant

Karen Weyant — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:12:02 +0000

Have you seen the book, Images of the Rust Belt by James Jeffrey Higgins? It’s a great book that really shows the beauty of the Rust Belt. Also, when I looked at Higgins’ homepage, I found out that he has a new book out titled On Common Ground — which is about “vanishing farms”. I guess I will have to add that book to my “to get list”.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:48:57 +0000

Thanks for stopping by. That sounds as if it would make a very interesting photo documentary project, if the retired workers are willing.

By: Lee's River

Lee's River — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:04:57 +0000

oh yes. my feeling exactly, every time I snap pictures of the crumbling tanneries over here. I think I’m going to start matching them up with the pictures of the mangled old men and women who worked in them and now wander through the streets for hours on end. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Thanks for this poem, dave.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:39:28 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I agree, closed factories can be quite attractive — like all ruins, really.

By: Karen Weyant

Karen Weyant — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:14:06 +0000

Having grown up in the “Rust Belt” I always thought there was a certain beauty to closed factories….

By: dale

dale — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:27:53 +0000

“a mass unmanning” — perfect.

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:42 +0000

There’s always something tragic about the relics of lost industries.