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Three Poems: “The Ballard of My First Communion”, “The Our Father Working-Class Riding Mower Blues”, “Duck, You Dumbass”

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The Ballad of My First CommunionJimmy is a public-school kid who comes to St. Mary's for First Communion classes.A parish of immigrant, working-class poor, St. Mary's insiders don't usually associate with public schoolers for fear of exposure to the worldly chaos of secular ideas.Or maybe we just think we're better than them.

Source: Journal of Working-Class Studies

DOI: 10.13001/jwcs.v10i1.9833

Author: William J. Doan

Language: English

Topic: Catholicism and Religious Studies

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4413276312

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