A people’s history of the poetry workshop from a poet and labor
activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for “regenerating the rich
tradition of working-class literature.”
Social Poetics
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, Social Poetics 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.
