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Present/tense : poets in the world
- 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.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS595.P634 P74 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 212 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Poésie.
- Contents
- Preface : "In California during the Gulf War" / by Denise Levertov -- Psalm for the next millennium ; Psalm for distribution ; Psalm for Amadou Diallo ; Psalm for the damnation of Pig Pino Oink Ochet who unlike his victims will never die nor disappear, because he was never human / Jack Agüeros -- One stick song ; Sonnet : tattoo tears ; Capital punishment ; The exaggeration of despair ; After the trial of Hamlet, Chicago / Sherman Alexie -- Poem wrapped around quotation from Samantha Power ; April 27, 1994 ; Message to Mary Ferrari in Jo'burg ; Why I am a whore ; Pink diapers / Donna Brook -- Thinking American ; Hamza Aweiwi, a shoemaker in Hebron ; Here it is ; More than we dared / Hayan Charara -- What's your take ; Global inequalities ; What's happening ; I am New York City 2 / Jayne Cortez -- Alabanza : in praise of Local 100 ; Ghazal for open hands ; Thanksgiving ; For the Jim Crow Mexican restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where my cousin Estaban was forbidden to wait tables because he wears dreadlocks ; Imagine the angels of bread ; Ezequiel / Martín Espada -- Mao & Matisse ; Heading for Manhattan by train ; Isolated bourgeoisie ; Cultivation / Ed Friedman -- Return to normalcy ; How many more minutes until we can devour our breached contract? / Joanna Fuhrman -- The rockhopper ; The open kitchen ; Everest ; These current events ; The glass bracelets / Kimiko Hahn -- A post-colonial tale ; No / Joy Harjo -- Calls from the outside world ; A woman strangles ; Minnesota farmers blame bad crops on Jews ; Unless you are a horse ; Light, dark, East and West / Robert Hershon -- from Guests of space / Anselm Hollo -- Weather ; Caught, April 2002, a prayer for peace ; Laments for the Afghan women ; Emine and Hamide ; New Southern exposure ; Genuflection to Petty Officer First Class Leonette Masters / Hettie Jones -- Song embodying what I've learned in thirty-five years ; Portrait in rhythm and blues ; Jewish ; Three recent trips to the golden past : East Village, Clarksdale Mississippi, Athens ; Theological ; Letters to the dead : Denise Levertov / Dick Lourie -- The witness / Ken Mikolowski -- Bilingual instructions ; Denigration ; Present tense ; We are not responsible ; Xenophobic nightmare in a foreign language / Harryette Mullen -- The swiftness with which those cities fell ; Libertors / D. Nurkse -- Psychic killed by train ; Re : the tobacco institute ; Two stories / Ron Overton -- Topography / Maureen Owen -- "Protective and defensive devices" ; East-West dialog 2002 ; Ace ; All the news, September 23, 2001 ; Official versions / Mark Pawlak -- The eye ; Usonian journals 2000 / Adrienne Rich -- Tomorrow will really be Sunday ; The public stammer ; Somerville Saturday night ; Gay life ; They kill us ; --To be held ; Chant / Ron Schreiber -- Bus ride ; The news / Harvey Shapiro -- Letter to David James Duncan February 16, 2003 ; Another attempt at rescue / M.L. Smoker -- Gray day in January in La Jolla ; Transcircularities ; "So what" ; 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 ; Workingman's wife : who she is, who she is not, what she buys, and why ; On class and desire ; The Coriolis effect / Chuck Wachtel -- Walker Evans in Bridgeport / Bill Zavatsky.
- ISBN
- 1931236399
- 9781931236393
- 1931236402
- 9781931236409
- LCCN
- 2003067792
- OCLC
- ocm54611155
- 54611155
- SCSB-8784463
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library