Social Poetics
Coffee House Press · Print & ebook · March 20, 2020
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- Who it’s for
- Mark Nowak traces the poetry workshop through autobiography, literary criticism, and Marxist theory.
- Genres
- Poetry Criticism, Politics in Literature, Political & Protest Poetry
- Published
- Coffee House Press, March 20, 2020
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A people’s history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for “regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature.” Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe.
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Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Social Poetics presents a people’s history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.
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Mark Nowak traces the poetry workshop through autobiography, literary criticism, and Marxist theory.
Come here for
- A people’s history of the poetry workshop
- Workers’ poetry beyond traditional literary spaces
Expect
- The Worker Writers School founder’s account
- Attention to poetry’s role among workers worldwide
Where it sits
| Political & Protest Poetry | 70% |
|---|---|
| Poetry Criticism | 65% |
| Politics in Literature | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry Criticism
- 21st Century Literature
- Politics in Literature
- Authors
- Mark Nowak
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Published
- March 20, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Poetry Criticism