By Courtney Wentz | Assistant Editor
David Wyman, a Mount Wachusett Community College Professor, is coming out with a book of poetry. Wyman whom teaches English at MWCC, has been a professor here for approximately 17 or 18 years.
The title of the book is Proletariat Sunrise. Wyman explained the choice of title, “Proletariat is a Marxist term. I discovered I’m a Marxist and that I really don’t like capitalism.” He discovered this about himself while writing his book. According to the professor, the goal of Marxism is to make us more human.
Proletariat Sunrise, Wyman said is “Intended to allude to the idea of a revolution but more as a fantasy. The idea that we are commodified, that everything we are and everything we do, our dreams, are driven by this idea of commodification. It gets internalized. So there was a unifying idea, but I didn’t plan it that way.”
He discovered poetry, “or poetry discovered me,” when he read “The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot in his American Literature II class, which he took at MWCC. He mentioned being “quietly blown away in the back row.” His first time writing poetry was in his creative writing class. He remembers his professor saying, “The experience of learning to write poetry was like a flower opening. It needs to be nourished and protected.”
The cover of the book is a photo, taken by Wyman’s daughter, of the sunrise hitting the paper mill his father used to work at.
The advice he had for young writers is, “To not give up, even if it seems pointless to continue, if you really want to write and you enjoy it and it means something to you, don’t give up. Write for yourself.” He went on to say that technological advances make it easier to see your work in print. Proletariat Sunrise will be available on Amazon between mid-December and early January, for which Wyman seemed excited to be able to look himself up on Amazon.
Comments are closed.