For a Living

For a Living

infobox Book |
name = For a Living: The Poetry of Work
orig title =
translator =


author = Nicholas Coles & Peter Oresick
cover_artist =
country = flag|USA
language = English
series =
subject = Working-class literature
genre = Poetry
publisher = University of Illinois Press
release_date = September 1995
media_type = Print (paperback)
pages = 432
isbn = 978-0-25206-410-4
oclc = 29845143
followed_by =

"For a Living: The Poetry of Work" is a literary anthology of American labor poetry written during the 1980s and 1990s.

The book identifies within American literature of the current Information Age or service economy a new work poetry about the nature and culture of nonindustrial work: white collar, pink collar, domestic, clerical, technical, managerial or professional. The poems cross lines of status, class, and gender and range from mopping floors to television news reporting, Wall Street brokerage, and raising children. The anthology offers nearly two hundred poems by ninety-six poets, most of whom are of the baby boomer generation.

The collection was edited by Nicholas Coles and Peter Oresick, both of the University of Pittsburgh. It is a companion volume to their critically-acclaimed "", an anthology of blue-collar work poetry. "For a Living" remains in print since its first publication in 1995 by the University of Illinois Press.

elected Poets in "For a Living"

Ai · Maggie Anderson · John Ashbery · Dorothy Barresi · Jan Beatty · Wanda Coleman · Jim Daniels · Toi Derricotte · Cornelius Eady · Martín Espada · Alice Fulton · Tess Gallagher · Dana Gioia · Albert Goldbarth · Judy Grahn · Edward Hirsch · David Ignatow · Denis Johnson · Lawrence Joseph · Maxine Hong Kingston · Susan Kinsolving · Ted Kooser · Brad Leithauser · Philip Levine · Thomas Lynch · Campbell McGrath · Joyce Carol Oates · Ed Ochester · Sharon Olds · Alicia Ostriker · Louis Simpson · John Updike · Judith Vollmer · Tom Wayman · C. K. Williams

References

*cite book | author=Coles, Nicholas and Peter Oresick, editors | title=For a Living: The Poetry of Work | location=Urbana and Chicago | publisher=University of Illinois Press | year=1995 | id=ISBN 0-252-06410-0

*cite book | author=Oresick, Peter and Nicholas Coles, editors | title=Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life | location=Urbana and Chicago | publisher=University of Illinois Press | year=1990 | id=ISBN 0-252-06133-0

External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=ca-print-uofillinois_press&vid=isbn0252064100 Look inside "For a Living" at Google Books]


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