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Original Essays | November 5, 2009

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Coal Mountain Elementary

by Mark Nowak

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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.

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.

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ISBN:
9781566892285
Author:
Nowak, Mark
Publisher:
Coffee House Press
Photographer:
Teh, Ian
Author:
Teh, Ian
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Working class
Subject:
Coal miners
Subject:
Single Author / American
Publication Date:
April 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
181
Dimensions:
8.20x5.74x.53 in. .64 lbs.
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