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Author:

Nowak, Mark, 1964- author.

Title:

Social poetics / Mark Nowak.

Publisher:

Coffee House Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

303 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Nowak, Mark,--1964---Political activity.
Poetry--History.--History.
Poetry--History.--History.
Working class--History.--History.
Literature and society--History.
Poetry--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Poetics.
Literature and society.
Poetics.
Poetry--Political aspects.
Poetry--Social aspects.
Political participation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1566895677
9781566895675

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1090427266

LCCN:

2019023637

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)