Coal Mountain Elementary: New and Selected Poems

Mark Nowak

• Other Authors Ian Teh (Illustrator)
• Title

  Coal Mountain Elementary: New and Selected Poems

• Date 2009
• ISBN 9781566892285
• Publisher Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
• Description 181 p.; 9 in.; b/w and color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  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. (Coffee House Press)

• Tags Poetry, Social documentary photography, Labor