
Writing in the Asylum
Student Poets in City Schools
Jennifer McCormick(Author)
Teachers' College Press
Published on 30. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8077-4489-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8077-4489-5 (9780807744895)
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Person
Jennifer McCormick teaches in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.