http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/shut_up_shut_down/ Timely poetry reviews Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:50:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.constantcritic.com/joyelle_mcsweeney/shut_up_shut_down/comment-page-1/#comment-53 maria damon Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:36:00 +0000 http://www.constantcritic.test/joyelle_mcsweeney/shut_up_shut_down#comment-53 thanks for the great review of a book that means much to me, as nowak is one of my closest poetry interlocutors here in the twin cities. the review is very articulate about why and how nowak's by-now-almost-trademark three-voiced collage poems work. to my reading, this is much more "working-class poetry" (whatever that means) than much of the poetry that assumed that label that i was seeing a decade ago or so: academics and established writers being nostalgic about their parents' culture --v depoliticized. i imagine that there are many working class literatures out there. <br> bests, md thanks for the great review of a book that means much to me, as nowak is one of my closest poetry interlocutors here in the twin cities. the review is very articulate about why and how nowak’s by-now-almost-trademark three-voiced collage poems work. to my reading, this is much more “working-class poetry” (whatever that means) than much of the poetry that assumed that label that i was seeing a decade ago or so: academics and established writers being nostalgic about their parents’ culture –v depoliticized. i imagine that there are many working class literatures out there.
bests, md

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