Late For Work

David Tucker has been writing Late for Work throughout his twenty-eight-year career at top city newspapers. In his poems he follows reporters hustling for stories and captures the beauty of everyday life, lived between breaking headlines.

"A fine and gentle invocation of humanity against too much urgency....Wonderful work!" --Tom Ashbrook, National Public Radio

"Here is cleverness and delight in language that do what only the best poems do." --Mark Bowden, journalist & author of Black Hawk Down

"[Tucker] keeps his eye focused, with tempered joy and genuine happiness, on how work also enlarges life....Terrific." --Andrew Hudgins