Joe Hill
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Joe Hill

The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

Franklin Rosemont

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Joe Hill

The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture

Franklin Rosemont

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A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill. It is a journey into the Wobbly culture that made Hill and the capitalist culture that killed him. Many aspects of the life and lore of Joe Hill receive their first and only discussion in IWW historian Franklin Rosemont's opus.

In great detail, the issues that Joe Hill raised and grappled with in his life: capitalism, white supremacy, gender, religion, wilderness, law, prison, and industrial unionism are shown in both the context of Hill's life and for their enduring relevance in the century since his death.

Collected too is Joe Hill's art, plus scores of other images featuring Hill-inspired art by IWW illustrators from Ralph Chaplin to Carlos Cortez, as well as contributions from many other labor artists.

As Rosemont suggests in this remarkable book, Joe Hill never really died. He lives in the minds of young (and old) rebels as long as his songs are sung, his ideas are circulated, and his political descendants keep fighting for a better day.

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Editore
PM Press
Anno
2015
ISBN
9781629632100
Image
Robert Green: Ink drawng, 1990

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The following poem erupted in a fit of automatic writing in the early fall of 1965. In November I added a few lines, gave it a title, and intended to read it at a Joe Hill Memorial organized by the Chicago IWW Branch at a club called Poor Richard’s in Old Town. The program, however, ran longer than expected, and the poem remained unread. It was issued as a broadside in 1990, with the drawing by Robert Green that is reproduced above.
I regard this wild call across the years, written in a kind of trance, as a suitably sur-objective conclusion to this book. As the poet Jones Very once put it, “I value these verses, not because they are mine, but because they are not.”

JOE HILL: A LONG-DISTANCE CALL

The desert sand a veinless sky
weeping thorns of sleepless water
Slowly but suddenly a roof
which is not even barking
collapses in the white eyes of a dog
looking out
from behind the comer
of its teeth
But no ghostly girl blinks her hands
Joe Hill Joe Hill your hat is full of stones
Magic stones piano stones dream stones fire stones
They are too small to see
They are very far away
beyond all first fruits
beyond all second thoughts
beyond all last chances
out there
where all windows are broken like flies
where all rooms are grayer than spoons
where all nights are blotched with scorpions
Yet somehow somewhere
there is an orange
Joe Hill they started killing you the day you were born
They tightened their whistles around your neck
They stole all the things
they never would have let you have
You watched you listened you drifted you dreamed
You spat in the face of their facelessness
You felt the touch of an unseen sun
of a life more real than real estate
The eye and its double
doubled you
and played back your own true voice
for the first time
once and for all
You sang an algebra aching with rage
The laughter you breathed was blacker than tea
and a million times hotter than hope
You sparked a defiance so vast so light
that the streets of the city
ran away with the stars
These passenger pigeons are confused in their flight
through fog choked up with glaciers of news
Someone is waving a fork in the dawn
No doubt a carnival is opening
a thousand miles away
Joe Hill Joe Hill I have found you at last
in ships that have grown back into trees
in desperate pedestrians’ white hair
in diagrams of impossible machines
in the red breath of escaped gorillas
in charts of seismographic tremors
in the taste of strange medicines
in old photographs of cave men
in the numbers of disconnected telephones
in maps of secret Catalonias
deep in the Himalayas
Joe Hill your restlessness is our best bet
Joe Hill your solitude is our call of the wild
Joe Hill your extravagance is our jump for joy
Felonious freedom’s indivisible dream
multiplied by lovers armed and danger...

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