Research Catalog

Title

Present/tense : poets in the world / edited by Mark Pawlak ; contributing editors Robert Hershon, Dick Lourie, and Ron Schreiber.

Publication

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Hanging Loose Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hershon, Robert.
• Lourie, Dick.
• Pawlak, Mark.
• Schreiber, Ron.

Description

212 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Political poetry, American
• American poetry > 20th century
• International relations > Poetry
• World politics > Poetry

Contents

Preface : "in California during the Gulf War" / Denise Levertov -- Introduction / Mark Pawlak -- Psalm for the next millennium / Jack Agueros -- Psalm for distribution / Jack Agueros -- Psalm for Amadou Diallo / Jack Agueros -- Psalm for the damnation of Pig Pino : Oink Ochet who unlike his victims will never die nor disappear, because he was never human / Jack Agueros -- One stick song / Sherman Alexie -- Sonnet : tattoo tears / Sherman Alexie -- Capital punishment / Sherman Alexie -- The exaggeration of despair / Sherman Alexie -- After the trial of Hamlet, Chicago / Sherman Alexie -- Poem wrapped around quotation from Samantha Power / Donna Brook -- April 27, 1994 / Donna Brook -- Message to Mary Ferrari in Jo'burg / Donna Brook -- Why I am a whore / Donna Brook -- Pink diapers / Donna Brook -- Thinking American / Hayan Charara -- Hamza Aweiwi, a shoemaker in Hebron / Hayan Charara -- Here it is / Hayan Charara -- More than we dared / Hayan Charara -- What's your take / Jayne Cortez -- Global inequalities / Jayne Cortez -- What's happening / Jayne Cortez -- I am New York City 2 / Jayne Cortez -- Alabanza : in praise of local 100 / Martin Espada -- Ghazal for open hands / Martin Espada -- Thanksgiving / Martin Espada -- For the Jim Crow Mexican restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where my cousin Estaban was forbidden to wait tables because he wears dreadlocks / Martin Espada -- Imagine the angels of bread / Martin Espada -- Ezequiel / Martin Espada -- Mao & Matisse / Ed Friedman -- Heading for Manhattan by train / Ed Friedman -- Isolated bourgeoisie / Ed Friedman -- Cultivation / Ed Friedman -- Return to normalcy / Joanna Fuhrman -- How many more minutes until we can devour our breached contract? / Joanna Fuhrman -- The rockhopper / Kimiko Hahn -- The open kitchen / Kimiko Hahn -- Everest / Kimiko Hahn -- These current events / Kimiko Hahn -- The glass bracelets / Kimiko Hahn -- A post-colonial tale / Joy Harjo -- No / Joy Harjo -- Calls from the outside world / Robert Hershon -- A woman strangles / Robert Hershon -- Minnesora farmers blame bad crop on Jews / Robert Hershon -- Unless you are a horse / Robert Hershon -- Light, dark, east and west / Robert Hershon -- From Guests of space / Anselm Hollo -- Weather / Hettie Jones -- Caught, April 2002 - a prayer for peace / Hettie Jones -- Laments for the Afghan women / Hettie Jones -- Emine and Hamide / Hettie Jones -- New southern exposure / Hettie Jones -- Genuflection to petty officer first class Leonette Masters / Hettie Jones -- Song embodying what I've learned in thirty-five years / Dick Lourie -- Portrait in rhythm and blues / Dick Lourie -- Jewish / Dick Lourie -- Three recent trips to the golden past : East Village, Clarksdale Mississippi, Athens / Dick Lourie -- Theological / Dick Lourie -- Letters to the dead : Denise Levertov / Dick Lourie -- The witness / Ken Mikolowski -- Bilingual instructions / Harryette Mullen -- Denigration / Harryette Mullen -- Present tense / Harryette Mullen -- We are not responsible / Harryette Mullen -- Xenophobic nightmare in a foreign language / Harryette Mullen -- The swiftness with which those cities fell / D. Nurkse -- Liberators / D. Nurkse -- Psychic killed by train / Ron Overton -- Re : the tobacco institute / Ron Overton -- Two stories / Ron Overton -- Topography / Maureen Owen -- "Protective and defensive devices" / Mark Pawlak -- East-west dialog 2002 / Mark Pawlak -- Ace / Mark Pawlak -- All the news - September 23, 2001 / Mark Pawlak -- Official versions / Mark Pawlak -- The eye / Adrienne Rich -- Usonian journals 2000 / Adrienne Rich -- Tomorrow will really be Sunday / Ron Schreiber -- The public stammer / Ron Schreiber -- Somerville Saturday night / Ron Schreiber -- Gay life / Ron Schreiber -- They kill us / Ron Schreiber -- ... To be held / Ron Schreiber -- Chant / Ron Schreiber -- Bus ride / Harvey Shapiro -- The news / Harvey Shapiro -- Letter to David James Duncan February 16, 2003 / M. L. Smoker -- Another attempt at rescue / M. L. Smoker -- Gray day in January in La Jolla / Quincy Troupe -- Transcircularities / Quincy Troupe -- "So what" / Quincy Troupe -- Signals & demarcations / Quincy Troupe -- For boats only / Janine Pommy Vega -- Two quarters, two nickels and the jacket of the one album he ever recorded - America welcomes home the desert sax - are in the open felt-lined case on the platform of the Astor Place subway station : Gulf War I / Chuck Wachtel -- Workingman's wife : who she is, who she is not, what she buys - and why / Chuck Wachtel -- On class and desire / Chuck Wachtel -- The Coriolis effect / Chuck Wachtel -- Walker Evans in Bridgeport / Bill Zavatsky.

ISBN

• 1931236399 (pbk.)
• 1931236402

LCCN

2003067792

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries