Title What Things Cost : an anthology for the people / edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones ; Emily Jalloul, associate editor

Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2023] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Ruben Quesada: Poetry Is Bourgeois -- I. When Will You Learn My Name? -- Sonia Guiñansaca: America Runs on Immigrants -- Ruth Awad: My Father Dreams of a New Country -- Kevin Goodan: Untitled -- L. Lamar Wilson: Burden Hill Apothecary & Babalú-Ayé Prepare Stinging Nettle Tea -- Erika Meitner: the bureau of reclamation -- Marwa Helal: write this instead -- José Olivarez: poem where no one is deported -- Yaccaira Salvatierra: Hummingbirds Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle: All in Conflict with This Act Are Hereby Repealed -- Chris Green: Workshop -- Curtis Bauer: Dispatch Out of a Language I Used to Speak -- Tomás Q. Morín: Table Talk -- Seth Pennington: Armory -- Faisal Mohyuddin: The Holiness of Our Fathers -- Yusef Komunyakaa: My Father's Love Letters -- Javier Zamora: Second Attempt Crossing -- upfromsumdirt: Fair Gabbro in the Orchard -- Kendra Allen: Elegy for the Bloodline -- Carter Sickels: Women's Work -- Ocean Vuong: The Gift -- II. Just Don't Never Give up on Love -- Emily Jalloul: The Taking Apart Jason Kyle Howard: Mourning Hillary and What Might Have Been -- Alina Stefanescu: Dialogue in Diptych with Emma Goldman -- Cal Freeman: Poolside at the Dearborn Inn -- Danez Smith: C.R.E.A.M. -- Justin Wymer: What Proof Need You of Love -- Ashley M. Jones: Hymn of Our Jesus & the Holy Tow Truck -- Sonia Sanchez: Just Don't Never Give up on Love -- Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: Viscera -- Rosa Alcalá: Propriety -- III. Blood and Bones -- Nickole Brown: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Saltine -- Tony Sweatt and Robert Gipe: On Mute -- George Ella Lyon: Where I'm From (2018) Emily Skaja: If Anyone Should Fight to Breathe -- Laura Secord: Bringing the Monument Down Birmingham, AL -- A. H. Jerriod Avant: If I May Be Frank -- Sandra Beasley: My Whitenesses -- Keith Leonard: Statement of Teaching Philosophy -- Kwame Dawes: Work -- Reginald Dwayne Betts: In Alabama -- Tyrone Williams: D.D.I.Y. -- Darius V. Daughtry: Ghazal for Grandma's Hands -- Cheryl R. Hopson: Family Musings, Matriliny, and Legacy -- Randall Horton: :the making of {#289-128} in five parts -- Nabila Lovelace: Ars Poetica -- Pauletta Hansel: I Confess -- Wendell Berry: Questionnaire Marcus Wicker: Reparations Redefinition: Bond -- M. L. Smoker: It Comes Down to This -- Kelly Norman Ellis: Work History -- Kevin Young: Ode to the Hotel Near the Children's Hospital -- Luther Hughes: My Mother, My Mother -- IV. Every One of Us: Owned -- Steve Scafidi: After a Hard Time -- Julia Bouwsma: Etymology of Land -- Crystal Wilkinson: O Tobacco -- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello: Poem in Furrows -- James and Tina Mozelle Braziel: Necessary Weight, Necessary Time -- Rodrigo Toscano: The Zone -- Vicente Yépez: Unskilled Labor Summary "By 1968, most Americans felt that the War on Poverty had been lost, cast out to the shadows of the Vietnam War. That same year, the Poor People's Campaign marched on Washington in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, motivated by King's desire for economic justice. The campaign was a multiracial effort that aimed to alleviate poverty for African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Indigenous people. In 2017, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival was launched with the goal to bring King's "revolution of values" to fruition. In What Things Cost, Ashley M. Jones and Rebecca Gayle Howell present an anthology of contemporary poems that speak to the current state of the labor movement. Designed to be a fundraiser for The Poor People's Campaign, What Things Cost employs the power of verse and storytelling to illuminate the painful difficulties of building a healthy life in modern America. Like the campaign itself, the poems bridge lived experiences of struggle across racial and historical divides. The effect is a folkloric journey through America's contemporary landscape. The common theme of work threads through this rich literary quilt, revising outdated American Dream mythology. Jones and Howell blanket tales of hardship, gratitude, guilt, grievance, and solidarity within this volume, with the goal of creating an economically just country"-- Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Description based on print version record Subject Working class -- Literary collections Work -- Literary collections Labor -- Literary collections American literature -- 21st century Working class writings, American. POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors) Working class Work Labor Working class writings, American American literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Genre/Form Electronic books Literary collections Form Electronic book Author Jones, Ashley M., 1990- editor. Howell, Rebecca Gayle, editor Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2022034834 ISBN 9780813182438 0813195284 9780813195292 0813195292 0813182433 9780813195285

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