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563 pages ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ben "Riverhead" Hamper -- Introduction / M L Liebler -- Part 1: Labor Poems And Songs: -- Spitting in the leaves / Maggie Anderson -- Closed mill / Maggie Anderson -- from Factory / Antler -- Written after learning slaves in ancient Greece and Rome had 115 holiday a year / Antler -- Migration scene c 1939 / Albert Aubert -- Poem some people will have to understand / Amiri Baraka -- My father teaches me to dream / Jan Beatty -- Poetry workshop at the homeless shelter / Jan Beatty -- Mad river -- Waitress's instructions on tipping or get the cash up and don't waste my time / Jan Beatty -- Prayer from a picket line / Daniel Berrigan -- My son is worried about me / Laura Boss -- League of defense / Melba Joyce Boyd -- Year of now snow / Melba Joyce Boyd -- Company pool / Michael Casey -- Cement / Hayan Charara -- Working for profit / Andrei Codrescu -- Drone / Wanda Coleman -- Accounts payable / Wanda Coleman -- One black mark / David Connolly -- Requiem for 'two dago reds' / Carlos Cortez -- Three spirts (Frank Little, Wesley Everest, Joe Hill) / Carlos Cortez -- I got the blue-ooze 93 / Jayne Cortez -- We don't wanna peso much / Carlos Cumpian -- Soon it's robots / Carlos Cumpian -- White heat / Emily Dickinson -- Red pocket knife / Geri DiGiorno -- Revolutionary letter #19 (for the poor people's campaign) / Diane di Prima -- Assembly room women / Sue Doro -- Ours / Sue Doro -- Tiny griefs / Sean Thomas Dougherty -- Last thoughts on Woody Guthrie / Bob Dylan -- Union Sundown / Bob Dylan -- Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll / Bob Dylan -- Visiting my parents' grave / W D Ehrhart -- Farmer / W D Ehrhart -- Lose yourself / Eminem -- Have you been to jail for justice? / Anne Feeney -- Notes from a slave ship / Edward Field -- Harder options (Hamtramck, Michigan) / Vievee Francis -- Found in Juarez / Vievee Francis -- Auto trade / Stewart Francke -- Lucky man cafe / Cynthia Gallaher -- Daddy, we called you / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Growing up Italian / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Herald news calls Paterson a "gritty city" / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- After school on ordinary days / Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Boys / Mariela Griffor -- 1913 massacre / Woody Guthrie -- Bury me in a free land / Frances E W Harper -- Walker Evans photograph: Factory Street, Amsterdam, New York, 1930 / Stephen Haven -- Putting up beans / Adelle Hedge Coke -- Off-season / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke -- Our song / Joe Henry -- Samuella's fufu / Laban Carrick Hill -- Sweatshop poem / Edward Hirsch -- Second-story warehouse / Edward Hirsch -- Last wobbly / Mikhail Horowitz -- Jobs / Mikhail Horowitz -- Detroit addendum / Murray Jackson -- Gifts / Murray Jackson -- Prayer to a farm worker / Victor Jara, translated by Mariela Griffor -- Talking dust bowl blues / X J Kennedy -- Comin' back in a Cadillac / Al Kooper -- Shipfitter's wife / Dorianne Laux. |
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from The Cleaving / Li-Young Lee -- Of love and other disasters / Philip Levine -- Arrival and departure / Philip Levine -- Death of Mayakovsky / Philip Levine -- Library days / Philip Levine -- On the scrap / M L Liebler -- Making it right / M L Liebler -- Riding into California / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Builders / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Deadhouse at the workhouse / Thomas Lux -- What I see when I drive to work / Thomas Lux -- Houseplant / Caroline Maun -- Abdication of the bees / Caroline Maun -- Beginning with a line by di Prima / Michael McClure -- Grandfather's breath / Ray McNiece -- Lazy Russ / Tony Medina -- Grandfather: frailty is not the story / D H Melhem -- Anonymous donation / Gary Metras -- Telephone repairman / Joseph Millar -- Ed's auto repair / Joseph Millar -- from $00-Steel-Train / Mark Nowak -- Cameron / Matthew Olzmann -- Ode to dirt in an old farmer's lungs / Anne-Marie Oomen -- Carolina Summer / Richard Peabody -- Forgiveness device / Richard Peabody -- Factory horn exodus / Jeff Poniewaz -- Well paid slaves / Jeff Poniewaz -- Day off / Minnie Bruce Pratt -- Ancestors / Dudley Randall -- George / Dudley Randall -- Old Witherington / Dudley Randall -- Groundskeeper busted reading in the custodial water closet / Kevin Rashid -- Tools / John R Reed -- What we do to live / Judith Roche -- Summer / Judith Roche -- Work work work / Trinidad Sanchez, Jr -- Arise, o wobblies! / Edward Sanders -- Great wobbly free speech struggles / Edward Sanders -- Shirtwaist makers strike of '09- '10 / Edward Sanders -- from America: a history of verse volume 1 1900-1939 / Edward Sanders -- Injustice against Debs / Edward Sanders -- Hard way was the only way you knew / Vivian Shipley -- Pink slip / Betsy Sholl -- Little guy / Marc Kelly Smith -- Day worker / Lamont B Steptoe -- Seamstress / Lamont B Steptoe -- Poem for my brother Timmy / Quincy Troupe -- This is not my beautiful house: five uncanny sites / Chris Tysh -- Lakeshore drives / Anca Vlasopolos -- Window repair / Mick Vranich -- Butcher's apron / Diane Wakoski -- Tony's dad / Barry Wallenstein -- 1943 / Mary Ann Wehler -- Ode to Elizabeth / Joe E Weil -- Father hunger and son / Roger Weingarten -- Big three killed my baby / Jack White -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- Part 2: Short Fiction: -- Turn the radio to a gospel station / Jeanne Bryner -- Selling manure / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- King Cole's American salvage / Bonnie Jo Campbell -- Paul's case / Willa Cather -- Friday night shift at the Taco House Blues (wah-wah) / Wanda Coleman -- from Maggie: a girl of the streets / Stephen Crane -- No pets / Jim Ray Daniels -- Spring today / Kathleen Glynn -- from Just like in the movies / Bill Harris -- No puedo bailar / Lolita Hernandez -- Old west / Christopher T Leland -- Swallowing camels / M L Liebler -- Work / Bret Lott -- Sister Detroit / Colleen McElroy -- I can't sleep / Clifford Odets -- 7-10 split / John Sayles -- Problem with Mrs P / Michael Shay -- Outside the millgate / Larry Smith -- Layoff / Jeff Vande Zande -- To body to chicken / Xu Xi -- Part 3: Non-Fiction, Histories, And Memories: -- from Life in the iron mills (or The Korl woman) / Rebecca Harding Davis -- from In fields and factories / Dorothy Day -- from Loaves & fishes / Dorothy Day -- Navigating north Jersey by CPS (class positioning system) / Jennifer Gillan -- from Bound for glory / Woody Guthrie -- from Riverhead / Ben Hamper -- from The Undertaking / Thomas Lynch -- from Fortunate son / Dave Marsh -- Horatio Alger must die (from Dude, where's my country?) / Michael Moore -- Green onions / Al Young -- Acknowledgments -- Biographies -- Credits. |
| Summary |
Overview: From the White Stripes' "The Big Three Killed My Baby" to Eminem's "Lose Yourself"; from the folk anthems of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie to the poems of Walt Whitman and Amiri Baraka; from the stories of Willa Cather and Bret Lott to the rabble-rousing work of Michael Moore-this transcendent volume touches upon all aspects of working-class life. A collection about living while barely making one, about layoffs and picket lines, about farmers, butchers, miners, waitresses, assembly-line workers, and the "Groundskeeper Busted Reading in the Custodial Water Closet," this is literature by the people and for the people. |
| Awards |
A 2011 Michigan Notable Books selection |
| Subject |
Working class writings, American.
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Labor -- Literary collections.
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Work -- Literary collections.
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Working class -- Literary collections.
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Labor. (OCoLC)fst00989798
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Work. (OCoLC)fst01180188
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Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
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Working class writings, American. (OCoLC)fst01180594
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst01921716
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Literary collections. (OCoLC)fst01423811
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Working class -- Literary collections.
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Literature.
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| Added Author |
Liebler, M. L., editor.
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Hamper, Ben, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781566892483 (alk. paper) |
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1566892481 (alk. paper) |
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