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What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People

Jalloul, Emily J.
Howell, Rebecca Gayle
Jones, Ashley M.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0813182433
ISBN13: 9780813182438
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Mar 7 2023
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.36
Height: 1.42 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards

What Things Cost: an anthology for the people is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones bring together more than one hundred contemporary writers singing out from the corners of the 99 Percent, each telling their own truth of today's economy.

In his final days, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for a multiracial coalition of the working poor. King hoped this coalition would become the next civil rights movement but he was assassinated before he could see it emerge as the Poor People's Campaign, now led by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. King's last lesson--about the dangers of dividing working people--inspired the conversation gathered here by Jones and Howell.

Fifty-five years after the assassination of King, What Things Cost collects stories that are honest, provocative, and galvanizing, sharing the hidden costs of labor and laboring in the United States of America. Voices such as Sonia Sanchez, Faisal Mohyuddin, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Silas House, Sonia Guiñansaca, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Crystal Wilkinson, Gerald Stern, and Jericho Brown weave together the living stories of the campaign's broad swath of supporters, creating a literary tapestry that depicts the struggle and solidarity behind the work of building a more just America.

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