If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change (Essential Essays Series #69)

If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change (Essential Essays Series #69)

Tom Wayman
$26.25
Publication Date: April 1st, 2018
Publisher:
Guernica Editions
ISBN:
9781771832878
Pages:
250

Description

The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics include various social issues in contemporary writing--daily work, narrative, love poems, the teaching (and hence status) of poetry, and postmodernism.

About the Author

Since 1973 Tom Wayman has published more than 20 books of poetry and prose, most recently the poetry collection Helpless Angels and a short fiction collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love. In March 2015 the Vancouver, B.C. Public Library chose him as a “Literary Landmark”. The plaque about his contribution to the city’s literary heritage highlights his championing of contemporary work writing. www.tomwayman.com.

Praise for If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change (Essential Essays Series #69)

"The Shadows We Mistake for Love: There is nothing safe about these stories. Linked by the ever-present waft of pot, recurring shady characters, and the setting itself, these stories resemble a close-knit community. Shifting in response to internal and external forces, the Slocan Valley and its inhabitants - wholly realized under Wayman's deft touch - feel simultaneously alive and vulnerable." — Quill and Quire

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