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Up Shut Down
Poems
by Mark Nowak
“Nowak
relies on his life as a person…with the sturdy
underpinning of class…and brings it back, humming.
And sleek with seeing and hearing! We get a sharp eye,
a literary & philosophical broadening of what used
to be labeled ‘working class poetry,’…deepened
with a hard but contemporary lyric and narrative. A
much needed parade.”—Amiri Baraka, from
the afterword
In
the narrative and investigative tradition of Gwendolyn
Brooks, Muriel Rukeyser, and Edward Sanders, this riveting
collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems
exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives
voice to the growing crisis faced in communities across
America. As industrial jobs continue to disappear in
the U.S., Shut Up Shut Down chronicles the
stories of the miners, plant laborers, and their families
and neighbors whose way of life is fast becoming extinct.
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