- Paperback: 447 pages
- Publisher: Charles Kerr (January 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0882862375
- ISBN-13: 978-0882862378
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 20.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
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The KSW surfaced as a response to the mid-1980s closing of the David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, British Columbia. Since the 19th century--when the Doukhobors, a Russian radical spiritualist sect, settled there--the city has had a reputation for progressive, even utopian, attitudes, as the informative introduction by the poet-editors recounts. Founded by writers such as Gary Whitehead, Calvin Wharton and Jeff Derksen, who has since become an important Canadian poet and critic, the school forged early, however troubled, ties with radical labor movements in Vancouver, most notably with the Wobblies (see FYI below). The writers themselves found inspiration in the New American poetics of the '60s (and its Canadian counterparts), but later made a turn toward Language writing techniques, though always refusing to assimilate into any sort of literary or academic culture ("school" or no). This anthology is the first devoted to the group. Highlights include Gerald Greene's intricate, long poem "Resume"; Peter Culley's elegant social-pastorals such as "Winterreise"; the bracket-within-brackets section of Kevin Davies's book Pause Button; Kathryn Mcleod's technically dazzling public meditations, like "The Infatuation"; Dan Farrell's "Thimking of You," a psycho-puzzle of nouns and verbs; Dorothy Trujillo Lusk's sand-blasting "Oral Tragedy," along with excellent work by Lisa Robertson (Xeclogue; Forecasts, Mar. 6) and Derksen (Downtime; Dwell). Whether the poems succeed in rearticulating and rendering visible the toxicities of class relations in a manner that can be taken up by the culture-at-large is a matter for debate. But more than any anthology of American poetry produced in the States recently, this book fulfills the promise of Donald Allen's seminal New American Poetry, bringing an unacknowledged and masterful group of subversive works into the light. (Apr.) FYI: Back in print this month, Joyce Kornbluh's Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, originally published in 1964, makes for a terrific introduction to the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies) and their activities, collecting missives, cartoons, manifestoes, songs, poems, photos, dispatches and other documents. (Charles H. Kerr, $24 464p ISBN 0-88286-237-5).
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Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Kornbluh's Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art and lore. Besides the full text and illustrations of the original, this new and expanded edition includes 32 pages of additional material: a new introduction and updated bibliography by old-time Wobbly organizer and scholar Fred Thompson; an informative essay on Wobbly cartoons and cartoonists by Franklin Rosemont; more than 3 dozen additional cartoons and drawings and a useful index. 450 oversize pages crammed with the Wobblies in all their glory! [Not even the doughtiest of capitalism's defenders can read these pages without understanding how much glory and nobility there was in the IWW story, and how much shame for the nation that treated the Wobblies so shabbily." [NY Times Book Review on the 1964 edition]
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They Had The Best Songs, Jan 17 2005
By Chimonsho - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology (Paperback)
"Rebel Voices" is a peerless collection of primary evidence on the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, our most exuberant labor radicals. It preserves a most diverse array of material, including pamphlets, newspaper articles and court transcripts, but also less conventional sources such as flyers, broadsheets, cartoons, and labor ballads. Kornbluh portrays the IWW as a dynamic, vital force fighting for workplace democracy and civil rights from 1905 to 1917, an era of bleak prospects for labor. The IWW ultimately succumbed to concerted government repression: violence, propaganda, punitive trials, and deportations. Many of the Wobblies' goals were later achieved through reform during and after the New Deal, but they left an inspiring activist legacy. The pictorial matter and music are especially revealing, and help illustrate the old adage that the government and bosses may have the money, guns and victories, but the workers have the best songs. Cf. M. Dubofsky, "We Shall Be All," a thorough narrative and analysis. More recent studies include G. Hall, "Harvest Wobblies," N. Sellars, "Oil, Wheat & Wobblies" and J.A. Lukas, "Big Trouble."
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"a peerless collection" is right, July 25 2006
By ashley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology (Paperback)
It would be hard for anyone interested in radical labor history to ask for more from a book than comes with Rebel Voices. This collection is absolutely filled with songs, essays, poems, art and political cartoons from the Wobblies during their most crucial and influential years, and covers many major figures from Joe Hill to Sacco and Vanzetti, as well as the lesser known workers fighting for justice in the 20th century.
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Still the Best on the IWW, Sep 19 2009
By Richard J. Gibson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology (Hardcover)
This work is simply unsurpassed as the best available on the IWW. Well written and very well illustrated, it's also a fine piece of scholarly research that remains accessible to nearly any reader who wants to know what real unionism once was--and it was not the Corporate State unionism of today. Not a single labor leader of any importance in the US believes that "The employing class and the working class have nothing in common" (the opening of the famous IWW preamble. The Labor Bosses of today deny that there are even significant contradictions with employers, thus deceiving the people who join unions thinking that is the very reason they send dues. The IWW's were internationalists, anti-racist, direct action oriented, and courageous--and Kornbluh's brilliant text, poems, songs, and photos will show you what they did.
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