An exhilarating account of a successful experiment in promoting community self-expression
Ross Talarico is Professor of Writing and Communications and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at National University, San Diego.
"Congratulations to Ross Talarico and the City of Rochester for motivating young people and stimulating the interest of the whole community in vital matters of literacy and literature." - Barbara Bush "Ross Talarico has a rare talent: he captures the inner thoughts of 'ordinary' people and reveals their extraordinary visions." - Studs Terkel "Ross Talarico's work is beautiful and moving." - Candice Bergen "Talarico's book has a big heart. Its great driving force is the urgency of personal experience. And its message is an important one: that we in America are losing touch with each other as individuals, as social classes, and as races partly because of our gradual loss of ownership of our language." - Ron Padgett, Teachers & Writers Collaborative "There are too few books in which the mysterious power of poetry in the lives of everyday people becomes apparent. Talarico's is a little American classic." - David Shapiro, author of After a Lost Original
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