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In well-made poems full of luscious sounds and pulsing details, Sandee Umbach discovers her inheritance of pattern-making in the steel mills and working-class neighborhoods of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Where her father made patterns, "preparing wooden replicas/of what steel would cast and harden, "she now forges poems, formal or free, tight lyrics or expansive narratives, that explore both her personal history and the historical record of this working-class city.