GARY YOUNG, FORREST HAMER, FRANCES PAYNE ADLER, DIANA GARCIA & other contributors to:

Fire & Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing

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Fire and Ink is a powerful and impassioned anthology of stories, poems, interviews, and essays that confront some of the most pressing social issues of our day.. Designed to inspire and inform, this collection embodies the concepts of breaking silence, bearing witness, resistance, and resilience. Beyond students and teachers, the book will appeal to all readers with a commitment to social justice.
Fire and Ink brings together, for the first time in one volume, politically engaged writing by poets, fiction writers, and essayists. Including many of our finest writers: Marta Espada, June Jordan, Patricia Smith, Gloria Anzalda, Sharon Olds, Arundhati Roy, Sonia Sanchez, Carolyn Forche, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Alice Walker, Linda Hogan, Gary Soto, Kim Blaeser, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Li-Young Lee, and Jimmy Santiago Baca, among others this is an indispensable collection.
This groundbreaking anthology marks the emergence of social action writing as a distinct field within creative writing and literature. Featuring never-before-published pieces, as well as reprinted material, Fire and Ink is divided into ten sections focused on significant social issues, including identity, sexuality and gender, the environment, social justice, work, war, and peace. The pieces can often be gripping, such as Frame, a in which Adrienne Rich confronts government and police brutality, or Chris Abani’s Ode to Joy, which documents great courage in the face of mortal danger.

We hope you join us for this reading, Q&A, and signing from a group of driven and dedicated writers!

Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (Paperback)

By Frances Payne Adler (Editor), Debra Busman (Editor), Diana Garcia (Editor)

$32.95

ISBN-13: 9780816527939
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: University of Arizona Press, 10/01/2009

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