{"product_id":"what-things-cost-an-anthology-for-the-people-hardcover","title":"What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Gayle Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAshley M. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eEmily J. Jalloul\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat Things Cost: an anthology for the people\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major anthology of labor writing in nearly a century. Here, editors Rebecca Gayle Howell \u0026amp; Ashley M. Jones bring together more than one hundred contemporary writers singing out from the corners of the 99 Percent, each telling their own truth of today's economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty-five years after the assassination of King, \u003ci\u003eWhat Things Cost\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRebecca Gayle Howell\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Purgatory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRender \/An Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, and the translator of Amal al-Jubouri's \u003ci\u003eHagar Before the Occupation\/Hagar After the Occupation\u003c\/i\u003e. Her Best Book of the Year honors include those from The Nautilus Awards, Best Translated Book Awards, The Weatherford Awards, The Banipal Prize, Book Riot, \u003ci\u003e The Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBurnaway\u003c\/i\u003e, and both \u003ci\u003eAmerican Purgatory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRender\u003c\/i\u003e were named Bestsellers of the Decade by Small Press Distribution. Among Howell's awards is the United States Artists Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Sexton Prize, the Carson McCullers Fellowship, and two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Howell is an Assistant Professor of Poetry and Translation for the University of Arkansas MFA program and the longtime Poetry Editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, where she and her colleagues received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Her most recent release is \u003ci\u003eA Winter Breviary\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Howell and composed by Reena Esmail, broadcast in part by the BBC and just published by Oxford University Press. \u003cb\u003eAshley M. Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is Poet Laureate of Alabama. She is the author of three poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eMagic City Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003edark \/\/ thing\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eREPARATIONS NOW!\u003c\/i\u003e (on the longlist for the PEN\/Voelcker Award for Poetry). Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize from Backbone Press, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award from St. Mary's College of Maryland. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargeant Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020, and she was a guest editor of POETRY magazine in 2021. She teaches Creative Writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and in the Low Residency MFA program at Converse University. She co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 9.13 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (2024)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43626079912025,"sku":"9780813182438","price":37.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/KWg28CNC079780813182438.webp?v=1783929255","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/de\/products\/what-things-cost-an-anthology-for-the-people-hardcover","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}