If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free
Literature and Social Change
The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social struggles aimed at making that nexus more liberatory. The essays' topics include various social issues in contemporary writing--daily work, narrative, love poems, the teaching (and hence status) of poetry, and postmodernism.
Since 1973 Tom Wayman has published more than 20 books of poetry and prose, most recently the poetry collection Helpless Angels and a short fiction collection, The Shadows We Mistake for Love. In March 2015 the Vancouver, B.C. Public Library chose him as a “Literary Landmark”. The plaque about his contribution to the city’s literary heritage highlights his championing of contemporary work writing. www.tomwayman.com.
