Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285, 287-288) and index.
Contents:
Social Poetics (An Introduction) -- A People's History of the Poetry Workshop: Watts, New York City, Attica -- People's Workshops: Kenya, Nicaragua, South Africa -- New Conjunctions -- Imaginative Militancy -- Transnational Poetry Dialogues -- First-Person Plural -- Consonance -- Emergent Solidarities
Summary:
"In Social Poetics, Mark Nowak imagines a new theory for poetry in the 21st century. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, Nowak's new book traces a "people's history of the poetry workshop" and chronicles the past twenty years of his own activism in organizations he founded-the Union of Radical Workers & Writers (URWW) and the Worker Writers School. Social Poetics documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working-class poetry community rising up across the globe"-- Provided by publisher.
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