WLT Book Reviews | November 2013

Writing the Great Recession

• EDITOR‘S NOTE
• INTRO: “Literature of the Global Working Class: Guest Editor’s Introduction” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
• ESSAY: “Australian Working-class Writing” by Sarah Attfield
• ESSAY: “Working at Getting the Word Out in America: Small Presses, Journals, and Websites Publishing Working-class Writing” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
• ESSAY: “I Am a Poet of Workers and Peasants” Working-class Poets of Pakistan by Qalandar Bux Memon & Zeeshan Yousaf
• ESSAY: “Why Say Goodbye: Reterritorializing Working-class Literature in Contemporary Korea” by Eun-Gwi Chung
• ESSAY: “My City’s Million Voices Chiding Me” “Answerability” and Modern Irish Working-class Writers by Michael Pierse
• E-BOOK: “Blaze a Vanishing” by Alan Morrison
• POETRY: “Cockatoo Island” by Sarah Attfield
• POETRY: “Scribbles on the Poverty Line” by Ibtisam Barakat (In English and Arabic)
• POETRY: “I know many places well – some I can still smell” by Elizabeth Hodgson
• POETRY: “Poet” by Arif Shah
• POETRY: Two Poems by Arif Shah
• POETRY: “Twigworth Yews” by Alan Morrison
• POETRY: Three Poems by Ewa Parma
• POETRY: “Blue” by Zheng Xiaoqiong
• SONG LYRICS: “The Hard Road” by Hilltop Hoods
• INTERVIEW: “Coal Miner’s Daughter: An Interview with Ewa Parma” by Karen Kovacik
• EXCERPT: Anyone Can Be Replaced by Peppe Fiore
• EXCERPT: “The Ranks of Winners” by Michela Murgia

16 American Working-class Poets

• “Bread & Roses” by Hakim Bellamy
• “Dusk” by Jeanne Bryner
• “The Hidden Beauty of Warren, Michigan” by Jim Daniels
• “Adjunct Blues” by Brian Fanelli
• “Steel-Toed” by Rain C. Goméz
• “The Change” by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
• “Wages” by Kathleen Hellen
• “sunday at mutha’s” by Quraysh Ali Lansana
• “Waitress” by Dorianne Laux
• “Work Song” by Joseph Millar
• “Dream Song Delta 1-39” by Jason Poudrier
• “Still Life #3” by Levi Romero
• “Why I Don’t Work Construction” by Aaron Rudolph
• “The Bra Factory” by Sandee Gertz Umbach
• “And roses, too” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
• “Redemption at Ray’s Corner Grocery Store” by Karen J. Weyant

IN EVERY ISSUE

• Editor’s Pick: For a Song and a Hundred Songs by Liao Yiwu
• City Profile: W. E. B. Du Bois Wrote Here
• What to Read Now The Surveillance State: Bigger, Braver New World?
• A Book for Every Bibliophile
• New Books: Doctor, Doctor
• Outpost: Switzerland’s Maison de l’Écriture by Tasja Dorkofikis

ESSAYS

• “Beyond the e-Book: The New World of Electronic Reading” by Andrew Piper

• “So Who Has Time to Read? Mediterranean Blue-collar Noir, Part 2” by J. Madison Davis

FICTION

• “A Single Drop of Blood” by Alexis Jenni
• “The History Teacher” by Anzhelina Polonskaya

INTERVIEWS

• “Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language: A Conversation with Álvaro Enrigue” by Peter Constatine
• “All Things French (in Love and War): An Interview with Alexis Jenni” by Dinah Assouline Stillman

POETRY

• “Tom Smithson Dead in His Garret” by José Manuel Cardona
• Three Poems by Juan Gelman
• “The Donegal Hock” by James McManus
• Two poems by Anzhelina Polonskaya
• Four Poems by Ludwig Steinherr
• “If I Were” by Sybil Volks
• Four Poems by Ludwig Steinherr