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Working Title
"Working Title" investigates a spectrum of emotions: disillusionment, fatigue, anger, frustration, and indifference, and others through a series of poems that honor the Everyman. The speakers of the poems share the same face but not always the same uniform. They are workers from the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. What emerges is a painting illustrating the consequences of spending more time in an office than out in the world. The numbing nine-to-fives. The blinding blue light of computer screens.
"Working Title" is a portrait of the mundane everyday of modern civilization in the western world.
"Working Title" is a portrait of the mundane everyday of modern civilization in the western world.
48 pages, Paperback
Published November 10, 2020
About the author
Chuck Harp
7 books4 followersChuck is a writer and winner of the Mad Cave Studios 2020 Talent Hunt who currently resides in Los Angeles. He recently published Before I Forget with Black Rose Writing, Working Title with Unsolicited Press, and self-published his webcomics, Last Panel and Deep Feelings.
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September 3, 2020
Didn't read the promotional blurb on here, so Working Title caught me off-guard. Thought it was going to be a batch of experimental poetry about self-discovery or some such.
Instead, Harp gave us a short and scathing collection about working classes' toils in first-world societies. The downsides of capitalism and career advancement that is often silenced by major corporations, from the "rich-poor" to the working poor. Anyone who doesn't (or just plain can't) exploit e-commerce and online self-employment for a variety of reasons. Blatant at times, yet the dry cuts are slivers of truth around us every day. Find a way to work in unions, stocks, legal cases, and environmental polluting. Then we're good on everything!
Working Title is an awesome rarity in the poetry books I've read this year, one that mixes social commentary with real life experiences and imagery. Time capsule material. Please try reading it.
Instead, Harp gave us a short and scathing collection about working classes' toils in first-world societies. The downsides of capitalism and career advancement that is often silenced by major corporations, from the "rich-poor" to the working poor. Anyone who doesn't (or just plain can't) exploit e-commerce and online self-employment for a variety of reasons. Blatant at times, yet the dry cuts are slivers of truth around us every day. Find a way to work in unions, stocks, legal cases, and environmental polluting. Then we're good on everything!
Working Title is an awesome rarity in the poetry books I've read this year, one that mixes social commentary with real life experiences and imagery. Time capsule material. Please try reading it.
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