Variations of Labor

"Alex Gallo-Brown is the poet of the service economy. He has found the language for the moment that work, having shed much of its physical cost, begins to trifle with our brains. In all of his writing, fiction and non-, he is a poet of loneliness, but he is also young, he is in the company of idealists, and his work is filled with longing, attention to the urban Pacific Northwest, and discovery of the clowns and geniuses of the workplace. Breaking ranks with the self-analyzers, he speaks out in these stories and poems for the brotherhood and the sisterhood of the indentured." -- Valerie Trueblood, author of Search Party, Terrarium, and other works of fiction, and contributing editor to The American Poetry Review