JEWISH FATE

Jewish Fate is an evocative autobiographical poem by Jim Dine accompanied by 18 lithographs of one of his favorite motifs, tools. Th e poem shows Dine reminiscing about his childhood days spent at his grandfathers hardware store in Cincinnati, where he worked ever y Saturday and summer for ten years from the age of nine.Dines vivid co-workers shape his memories. There is the head shipping cler k Joe Kibbing: tall, thin, very dramatic and high strung and didnt take orders easily.