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Quotes by Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart is a distinguished American author, journalist, and cultural commentator, known for her incisive explorations of the complexities of contemporary life. Born in 1972, Quart gained acclaim for her thought-provoking books like "Republic of Outsiders" and "Squeezed," which delve into economic inequality and the gig economy's impact on modern existence. As a co-founder of the nonprofit organization "The Economic Hardship Reporting Project," she champions underrepresented voices, leaving a legacy that bridges literature and social activism, illuminating the struggles of everyday Americans.
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"Unnatural constructs - cities and medical pain management - have always seemed pretty good to me."
Alissa Quart"Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations."
Alissa Quart"Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde."
Alissa Quart
"When I was doing my research for 'Branded,' I'd meet groups of teenagers and preteenagers or tweens, and they would laugh at a magazine spread in a women's magazine or teen girl magazine and say, 'I'd never buy this outfit. I know these girls are starving themselves.' But they probably would go out and buy the thing eventually."
Alissa Quart"There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of changing, transforming way we go through the world happening. The lyrical eye, the perspective of poetry, can get to something like this when other forms of writing can't."
Alissa Quart