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What Things Cost
an anthology for the people
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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"I just left a union meeting in Franklin, Pennsylvania, where Ironworkers were thanking the rest of the labor movement for supporting them during a recent strike. At the core of solidarity is a mix of kindness and courage, rooted in shared vulnerability. And that's exactly what I feel when I read What Things Cost. The stories, confessions, elegies, and authenticities in this book transcend generations and demographics, and feel just as familiar here in Franklin, Pennsylvania, as they will in every corner of every community where work happens."—Stephen Cousins. Director, Central Region at National AFL-CIO
"This gorgeous anthology, What Things Cost, sets to singing the profound dignity of folk too far in the margins of our everyday consciousness. Here, in the figures and rhythms of poetry, one hears and feels both their nobility and disenfranchisement, yet, too, a mighty provocation of truth-telling in song that tilts the world toward parity and justice."—Major Jackson, poet and professor of English at Vanderbilt University
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Other Titles by Rebecca Gayle Howell
This is Home Now
The Quare Women
Other Titles in POETRY / Anthologies
The Route 9 Anthology
Records of Woman, with Other Poems
The American Voice Anthology of Poetry