{"product_id":"social-poetics-9781566895675","title":"Social Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSocial Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e documents the imaginative militancy and emergent solidarities of a new, insurgent working class poetry community rising up across the globe. Part autobiography, part literary criticism, part Marxist theory, \u003cem\u003eSocial Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e presents a people's history of the poetry workshop from the founding director of the Worker Writers School. Nowak illustrates not just what poetry means, but what it does to and for people outside traditional literary spaces, from taxi drivers to street vendors, and other workers of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Nowak is the author of \u003cem\u003eCoal Mountain Elementary, Shut Up Shut Down, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRevenants.\u003c\/em\u003e He is the recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry \u0026amp; Activism and fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations. Nowak has led poetry workshops for workers and trade unions in the US, South Africa, the UK, Panama, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. He is currently a professor of English at Manhattanville College and the founding director of the Worker Writers School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356747862290,"sku":"9781566895675","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9661a5df-8ba7-4902-a902-937afdce64be.jpg?v=1728312985","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/social-poetics-9781566895675","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}