Last Heat

By Peter Blair

1999 Washington Prize winner

Poems that explore creation, violence, and survival in a Pittsburgh steel mill and how this dynamic weaves into family life, especially the universal “mill” of the father son, brother-brother relationships. “Peter Blair’s poetry takes me right inside where I’ve never been, the working life of a steel mill, the love between fathers and sons, brothers and working men. God is in the details, and they are good and strong here.”–Alicia Ostriker.