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Title:

Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé.

Publisher:

The University of Arkansas Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

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.

Other Authors:

Wolpé, Sholeh, editor of compilation.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1557288615
9781557288615
1557286299
9781557286291

OCLC:

(OCoLC)819632067

LCCN:

2012045632

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)