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Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world

Title
Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé.
Publication
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Wolpé, Sholeh
Description
xiii, 140 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • Protest poetry, American
  • Human rights > Poetry
  • Liberty > Poetry
  • Freedom of expression > Poetry
  • American poetry > 21st century
  • American poetry > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Call and answer / Robert Bly -- Lady freedom among us / Rita Dove -- Your beauty is overwhelming / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Green / Yusef Komunyakaa -- On reading a biography of George Washington / Eloise Klein Healy -- End of the war, 1949 / Willis Barnstone -- Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 / Garrett Hongo -- Night in blue / Brian Turner -- This place is here / Annie Finch -- Tienanmen, the aftermath / Marilyn Chin -- In mystic / Joy Harjo -- All Hallows Eve / Christopher Merrill -- History lesson / Natasha Trethewey -- An essay on liberation / David St. John -- November 11 / Kim Addonizio -- Parable of the Jew without a name / Tony Barnstone -- Tahrir / Marilyn Hacker -- Unrest / Kimiko Hahn -- Summer of '09 / Andrew Hudgins -- Reading about Rwanda / Charles Harper Webb -- The freeways considered as earth gods / Dana Gioia -- The squash man / Stuart Dischell -- The bridge of intellectuals / Richard Katrovas -- Dialogue (of the imagination's fear) / Jorie Graham -- Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday ("Live in the body, long as you will, Madiba") / Michael S. Harper -- War is never right / Nikki Giovanni -- Athena looks on / David Mason -- Jerusalem : Easter, Passover / Stanley Moss -- Boy shooting at a statue / Billy Collins -- Angels / William Heyen -- To Salah al Hamdani, November, 2008 / Sam Hamill -- After the fact / Mary Jo Bang -- The book of the dead man (The vote) / Marvin Bell -- The museum of stones / Carolyn Forché -- Rules governing the exchange of prisoners / David Wagoner -- Language acquisition : no and yes / Alicia Ostriker -- On election day / Charles Bernstein -- Shoo / Carol Frost -- Second thoughts / Robert Wrigley -- Becoming Milton / Coleman Barks -- World cup / Tom Sleigh -- In prison / Jean Valentine -- Now / James Ragan -- On the ordination of a Zen monk / Norman Dubie -- Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin -- Staff Sgt. Metz / Dorianne Laux -- Ex-embassy / Carol Muske-Dukes -- August 6, and again on August 9 / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The allusion of seduction / Quincy Troupe -- Dear Prudence / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Asphodel / Gerald Stern -- Dark thirty / Barbara Ras -- Teacup manifesto / Molly Peacock -- Fatwa / Sharon Doubiago -- What's fair is fair / Ralph Angel -- Poverty / Christopher Buckley -- The gatekeeper's children / Philip Levine -- More poetry / Carl Dennis -- The people of the other village / Thomas Lux -- Wait / Galway Kinnell.
Call Number
JFD 13-2676
ISBN
  • 9781557286291
  • 1557286299
LCCN
  • 2012045632
  • 40022115223
OCLC
819632067
Title
Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé.
Publisher
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Wolpé, Sholeh, editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40022115223
Sudoc No.
HI.F 3/178-8:B 732/2013 ardocs
Research Call Number
JFD 13-2676
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