Shut Up Shut Down Author:Mark Nowak The hard times faced by the American working class in the nations rust belt inform these poetic oral histories.Nowak relies on his life as a personwith the sturdy underpinning of classand brings it back, humming. And sleek with seeing and hearing! We get a sharp eye, a literary & philosophical broadening of what used to be labeled working... more » class poetry,deepened with a hard but contemporary lyric and narrative. A much needed paradeAmiri Baraka, from the afterword In the narrative and investigative tradition of Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Sanders, and Muriel Rukeyser, this riveting collection of poetic plays and photo-documentary poems exposes the human cost of corporate greed and gives voice to the growing crisis faced in industrial communities across America.« less