The Velvet Ghetto

"The Velvet Ghetto is a work of narrative poetry made up of twenty-five poems that form a larger story in verse. The poems in The Velvet Ghetto try to capture the tension and erosion of the self that accompanies working for a corporation that values obedience above all else. Transcending Grinnell's own personal experience, it aims to give words to the indignities all employees can suffer in large hierarchical bureaucracies ruled by authoritarian leaders"--