Coronavirus Haiku |
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| Author:
| Worker Writers School, |
| Editor:
| Nowak, Mark |
| Introduction by:
| Nowak, Mark |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7343176-4-0 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Kenning Editions
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. The Worker Writers School supports writers from one of New York City's most ubiquitous yet least-heard populations: low-wage workers. Mark Nowak, a writer and founding director of the school, presents a selection of haiku written by "frontline workers" during the Covid 19 crisis. The poets included here had already been studying examples of the form and its connection to political resistance from seventeenth-century Japan to the Black Arts Movement of the twentieth century,...
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Poetry. The Worker Writers School supports writers from one of New York City's most ubiquitous yet least-heard populations: low-wage workers. Mark Nowak, a writer and founding director of the school, presents a selection of haiku written by "frontline workers" during the Covid 19 crisis. The poets included here had already been studying examples of the form and its connection to political resistance from seventeenth-century Japan to the Black Arts Movement of the twentieth century, as well as its capacity to amplify voices of everyday life. These "coronavirus haiku" convey moments of protest, solace, wonder, certainty, love, and strife.