Writing in the Asylum: Student Poets in City Schools (Teaching for Social Justice) - Softcover

McCormick, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807744891 ISBN 13: 9780807744895

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2004

Synopsis

Jennifer McCormick opens a fascinating window on the lives of young women, showing how poetry can create a sense of security and self-esteem in the often sterile, violent, and oppressive environment of an urban high school. The students' poetry is at once disturbing and beautiful, hopeful and bleak, and McCormick's depiction of the increasingly institutionalized nature of urban schools is riveting. The author crafts a compelling argument that shows the power of poetry as a response to the depersonalization that students face in many urban high schools, and shows readers how it flourishes both despite and because of the violence and 'criminalizing institutional routines' of many state schools.

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Review

""Full of powerful poetry and arresting social criticism."

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807744891
• ISBN 13: 9780807744895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160