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Coal Mountain Elementary

by Mark Nowak · 2009

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A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementaryremixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.

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A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for "regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature," Mark Nowakregularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and international trade unions. The author of Revenantsand Shut Up Shut Down, he is also a frequent contributor to the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog.

Subject
politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
Themes
workworkMore like thisLess of this
Setting
West VirginiaWest VirginiaMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 190 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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