TY - GEN T1 - What Things Cost : an anthology for the people T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A2 - Jones, Ashley M., 1990- A2 - Howell, Rebecca Gayle LA - English PP - Lexington, Kentucky PB - The University Press of Kentucky YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1355694209 AB - "By 1968, most Americans felt that the War on Poverty had been lost, cast out to the shadows of the Vietnam War. That same year, the Poor People's Campaign marched on Washington in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, motivated by King's desire for economic justice. The campaign was a multiracial effort that aimed to alleviate poverty for African Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Indigenous people. In 2017, the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival was launched with the goal to bring King's "revolution of values" to fruition. In What Things Cost, Ashley M. Jones and Rebecca Gayle Howell present an anthology of contemporary poems that speak to the current state of the labor movement. Designed to be a fundraiser for The Poor People's Campaign, What Things Cost employs the power of verse and storytelling to illuminate the painful difficulties of building a healthy life in modern America. Like the campaign itself, the poems bridge lived experiences of struggle across racial and historical divides. The effect is a folkloric journey through America's contemporary landscape. The common theme of work threads through this rich literary quilt, revising outdated American Dream mythology. Jones and Howell blanket tales of hardship, gratitude, guilt, grievance, and solidarity within this volume, with the goal of creating an economically just country"-- OP - 352 NO - Includes index. CN - PS508.W73 SN - 9780813182438 SN - 0813195284 SN - 9780813195292 SN - 0813195292 SN - 0813182433 SN - 9780813195285 KW - Working class : Literary collections. KW - Work : Literary collections. KW - Labor : Literary collections. KW - American literature : 21st century. KW - Working class writings, American. KW - Littérature américaine : 21e siècle. KW - Écrits d'ouvriers américains. KW - POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors) KW - Working class KW - Work KW - Labor KW - Working class writings, American KW - American literature KW - Literature: history & criticism. KW - Literature. KW - 2000-2099 KW - Electronic books. KW - Literary collections ER -