Research Catalog

Title

The poetry of capital : voices from twenty-first-century America / edited by Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini.

Publication

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grossberg, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott), 1971-
• Rossini, Clare

Description

xxv, 228 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the impact of global economic crises to local tag sales, from the subversive effects of dark money on politics to the freedom granted by a summer job, from sweatshops where our clothes are produced to the malls where they are sold, this volume gets to the heart of Americans' relationships to capital as only poetry can--back cover.

Subjects

• United States
• Wealth
• Money
• Poetry
• 2000-2099
• Economic history
• United States > Economic conditions > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• Wealth > United States > Poetry
• Money > United States > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Alan Chazaro -- El Paletero's Song -- The Cowboy Shirts -- Aricka Foreman -- Still Life of Acme in Spring -- Price of Today's Ticket -- Before I Fire Her, the Therapist Asks What IS It Like to Be a Black Woman HERE: A Monologue -- October -- Claire McQuerry -- Textbook Ekphrasis -- Will Cordeiro -- Piecework -- Smoke -- Spambot -- Ross White -- Savings & Loan -- Dark Money -- Diana Marie Delgado -- Free Cheese and Butter -- Man of the House -- La Puente -- Xochiquetzal Candelaria -- Surrender #4: Take Notice, Take Nothing -- Matter -- Boom -- Robert Avery -- The Leisure Class -- Odds Are -- Crystal Williams -- Detroit as Brewster Projects -- At the Water -- Cate Marvin -- Stopping for Gas Near Cheat Lake -- Stone Fruit -- Kevin Prufer -- The Vast Economies -- True Crime -- Major Jackson -- Selling Out -- A Brief Reflection on Torture Near the Library of Congress -- Susan Briante -- From Mother Is Marxist -- Sheryl Luna -- Not One Red Cent -- Chico's Tacos -- The Loser -- Eric Gansworth -- A Half-Life of Cardio-Pulmonary Function -- Wade Wakes Me with Sweat, Tears, and, Yes, the Rest Too -- Devon Balwit -- Un-American -- Minding the Gap -- invocation -- Denise Duhamel -- $100,000 -- $400,000 -- $600,000 -- Kathleen Winter -- Country Club Fourth of July -- The Grammar of Ornament -- Hipster Squid -- Jane Mead -- Money -- From Cove -- Allison Hedge Coke -- Off-Season -- This He Learned by Being American -- Wealth -- James Fowler -- The School for Lucre -- Martin Espada -- Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper -- The Saint Vincent de Paul Food Pantry Stomp -- Offerings to an Ulcerated God -- Jo Pitkin -- Village: Closure -- Village: Food Chain -- Village: Can Collector -- Village: White Money -- Kimiko Hahn -- Things That Remind Me of Squalor -- Constant Objection -- David Baker -- Midwest: Ode -- Postmodernism -- Joseph Gastiger -- The Industrial Age -- Parable of Untraceable Power -- Hamelin -- Tony Hoagland -- America -- Big Grab -- David Wojahn -- Ghost Mall: Richmond, Virginia -- Pinata -- Mark Doty -- Air Rights -- Jane Hirshfield -- In My Wallet I Carry a Card -- My Luck -- Three-Legged Blues -- Dorianne Laux -- Waitress -- The Tooth Fairy -- Afaa Michael Weaver -- Ivory Soap, a Whiteness -- A Postscript to Giant -- Repack Room -- Kathleen Hellen -- The Dirty Work of Quarters -- How Light Bends at the Exxon -- The Erotic Has No Use -- Dana Gioia -- Money -- Shopping -- John Bradley -- What Money Can Buy -- As Blood Is the Fruit of the Heart -- Edward Hirsch -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Cold Calls -- Liberty Brass -- Second-Story Warehouse -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- A Prayer for Workers -- Cape Coast Castle -- Mary Jo Bang -- A Woman Overheard Speaking -- Wall Street -- Minnie Bruce Pratt -- Looking for Work -- Picketing the Bargain Store -- Playing the Guitar Underground -- The Dow Turns Red -- George Perreault -- Buster McKinney: Economics -- James Hardesty: Burrito -- Sharon Olds -- Left-Wife Bop -- Money -- Wendy Barker -- Planishing -- Tombstone, 1962 -- On Silver Spoons -- Cleaning Silver -- Robert Pinsky -- Shirt -- The Refinery -- Martha Collins -- Middle -- White Money.

Call Number

JFE 21-6962

ISBN

• 9780299330446
• 0299330443

LCCN

• 2020017804
• 40030483061

OCLC

1153341810

Title

The poetry of capital : voices from twenty-first-century America / edited by Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini.

Publisher

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Grossberg, Benjamin S. (Benjamin Scott), 1971- editor.

Rossini, Clare, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030483061

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6962