Product Description: A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes 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...read more

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Essays. !WORKERS OF THE WORD, UNITE AND FIGHT! examines current crises in the literary landscape and book culture of the United States. Nowak's influential essay on not-for-profit literary centers in the era of corporate mergers is republished here in conjunction with his previously unavailable essay, "Neoliberalism, Collective Action, and the American MFA Industry"--a challenge to public intellectuals, culture workers, and collectives to impede and revise the American MFA industry and its subsidiary industries through cultural adjustments...read more

Product Description: Mark Nowak encounters the whispers of creation and cultural remembrance in his eminent, visionary poetry. Revenants is an original return to a splendid ethos of ancestral word patterns, and the images bear the solemn pleasures of time, place, and singular landscapes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Coffee House Press invites readers into the world of Native American postmodern poetry in a groundbreaking anthology sampling the work of twenty-two authors who lead us into new conceptual terrain. Visit Teepee Town is the first anthology dedicated solely to postmodern North American Native poetry and poetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents excerpts from and republications of books spanning fifty years of writing (view table of contents)