Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams

Herausgeber: Liebler, M. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

Poets, rock stars, filmmakers, activists, novelists, and historians lend their voices to this landmark collection about the daily grind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Coffee House Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781566892483
• ISBN-10: 1566892481
• Artikelnr.: 29953963

Autorenporträt

M. L. Liebler is a poet, literary arts activist, and community organizer who has read and performed his work internationally. A teacher at Wayne State University, he is also the founding director of both the National Writer’s Voice Project in Detroit and Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. He was selected as Best Detroit Poet by the Detroit Free Press and Metro Times, and his many awards include a Paterson Poetry Prize for Literary Excellence and the Barnes & Noble Poets & Writers Writers for Writers Award, an honor shared with Maxine Hong Kingston and Junot Díaz.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Labor Poems & Songs Maggie Anderson
..Spitting in the Leaves Closed Mill Antler
..Factory (excerpt) Written After Learning Slaves in Ancient Greece and Rome Had 115 Holidays a Year Amiri Barakä
..A Poem Some People Will Have to Understand Jan Beatty
..My Father Teaches Me to Dream Poetry Workshop at the Homeless Shelter Mad River A Waitresses
Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don
t Waste My Time Daniel Berrigan
..Prayer from a Picket Line Laura Boss
..My Son Is Worried About Me Melba Joyce Boyd
.. the league of defense the year of no snow Michael Casey
.The Company Pool Hayan Chararä
.Cement Andrei Codrescü
..Working for a Profit Allison Adele Hedge Coke
.Putting Up Beans Off Season Wanda Coleman
Drone Accounts Payable David Connolly
.One Black Mark Carlos Cortez
.Requiem for
Two Dago Reds Three Spirits Jayne Cortez
..I Got the Blue-Ooze 93 Emily Dickinson
Poem # 133 (White Heat) Carlos Cumpian
.We Don
t Wanna Peso Much Soon It
s Robots Diane diPrimä
.Revolutionary Letter #19 Sue Dorö
Assembly Room Women Ours Sean Thomas Dougherty
...Tiny Griefs Bob Dylan
...Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie Union Sundown Lonesome Ballad of Hattie Carroll W.D. Ehrhart
..Visiting My Parents Grave The Farmer Eminem
.Lose Yourself Anne Feeney
Have You Been to Jail for Justice Cynthia Gallaher
..Lucky Man Café Edward Field
.Notes from a Slave Ship Vievee Francis
Harder Options Found in Juarez Stewart Francke
The Auto Trade Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Daddy, We Called You After School on Ordinary Days The Herald News Calls Paterson a
Gritty City
Growing Up Italian Biancheria and My Mother Woody Guthrie
..1913 Massacre Frances E.W. Harper
..Bury Me in a Free Land Edward Hirsch
The Sweatshop Poem Second Story Warehouse Mikhail Horowitz
The Last Wobbly Jobs Murray Jackson
For Phil Levine Gifts X.J. Kennedy
.Talking Dust Bowl Aneb Kogostile
..A New Afrikan Reggae Al Kooper
..Comin
Back in a Cadillac Dorianne Laux
The Shipfitter
s Wife Li-Young Lee
.The Cleaving Philip Levine
.. The Death of Mayokovsky, Library Days Of Love & Disasters Arrival & Departure M.L. Liebler
.On the Scrap Making It Right Shirley Geok-lin Lim
.Riding into California Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
..The Builders Thomas Lux
The Deadhouse at the Workhouse What I See When I Drive To Work Michael McClure
Beginning with a Line by diPrima Ray McNiece
..Grandfather
s Breath Tony Medinä
..Lazy Russ D. H. Melhem
Grandfather: Frailty Is Not Your Story Gary Metras
..Anonymous Donation Joseph Millar
.Telephone Repairman Ed
s Auto Repair Mark Nowak
from $00/Line/Steel/Train Matthew Olzmann
.Cameron Richard Peabody
.The Forgivness Device Carolina Summer Molly Peacock
The Nice Party Jeff Poniewaz
..Factory Horn Exodus Well Paid Slaves Minnie Bruce Pratt
Day Off Dudley Randall
...Ancestors George Old Witherington Kevin Rashid
.. Groundskeeper Busted Reading in the Custodial Water Closet John R. Reed
..Tools Judith Roche
What We Do to Live Summer Trinidad Sanchez, Jr
Work Work Work Edward Sanders
.America: A History (excerpts) Herbert Scott (?)
.Bag Boy Vivian Shipley
The Hard Way Was the Only Way You Knew Betsy Sholl
Pink Slip Marc Kelly Smith
.Underdog Pull the Next One Up Lamont B. Steptoe
.Day Worker Seamstress Quincy Troupe
Poem for My Brother Timmy Chris Tysh
This Is Not My Beautiful House: Five Uncanny Sites Diane Wakoski
.The Butcher
s Apron Barry Wallenstein
..Tony
s Dad Mary Ann Wehler
..1943 Joe. E. Weil
.Ode to Elizabeth, NJ Roger Weingarten
..Father Hunger & Son Jack White
The Big Three Killed My Baby Walt Whitman
I Hear America Singing II. Short Fiction Jeanne Bryner
Turn the Radio to a Gospel Station Bonnie Jo Campbell
Selling Manure King Cole's American Salvage Willa Cather
Paul
s Case Wanda Coleman
..The Friday Night Shift at the Taco House Blues (Wah-Wah) Stephen Crane
..Maggie Jim Daniels
..No Pets Kathleen Glynn
.Spring Today Bill Harris
.At The Movies Lolita Hernandez
.. No Puedo Bailar Christopher T. Leland
The Old West M.L. Liebler
...Swallowing Camels Colleen McElroy
Sister Detroit Bret Lott
..Work John Sayles
The 7/10 Split Larry Smith
..Outside the Millgate Clifford Odets
I Can
t Sleep Jeff Vande Zande
..Layoff Xu Xi
To Body To Chicken III. Non-Fiction , Histories & Memoirs Rebecca Harding Davis
Excerpt from Life in the Iron Mills Dorothy Day
Excerpts from The Dorothy Day Reader Jennifer Gillan Navigating New Jeresy Woody Guthrie
..from Bound for Glory Ben Hamper
Excerpt from Rivethead Thomas Lynch
Excerpt from The Undertaking Michael Moore
Horatio Alger Must Die Henry P. Rosemont
.Benjamin Franklin & The Philadelphia Typographical Strikers of 1786 Al Young
Memoir Excerpt