Mark Weiss wrote:
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> US working class poets--a few who come instantly to mind:
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> Olson, Wieners, Corso, Kerouac, Marsden Hartley, Niedecker.
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Right, yes - but I was thinking more of "proletarian poets," people who
explicitly sing, "foreground," the industrial working-class or the urban
underclass or the problems of capitalist work or oppression as such.
Another name that comes to mind is Edwin Rolfe, who fought in the
Abraham Lincoln brigade. Don't get me wrong - I like your list -
Hartley's poems about Maine fishermen should be better known, and
Niedecker is a great poet of hardscrabble work.
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