<DIV><p>A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America’s most innovative political poets, <I>Coal Mountain Elementary</I> remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation’s curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh.</p><p>A poet and labor activist heralded by Adrienne Rich for “regenerating the rich tradition of working-class literature,” <B>Mark Nowak</B> regularly leads transnational poetry workshops between American and international trade unions. The author of <I>Revenants</I> and <I>Shut Up Shut Down</I>, he is also a frequent contributor to the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog.</p></DIV>