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1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths and Rooftops of Tehran , and she is the editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles and a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad , which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Protest poetry, American.
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Human rights -- Poetry
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Liberty -- Poetry
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Freedom of expression -- Poetry
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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POETRY -- Anthologies (multiple authors)
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American poetry
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Freedom of expression
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Human rights
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Liberty
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Protest poetry, American
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wolpé, Sholeh, editor
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| ISBN |
9781610755177 |
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1610755170 |
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1299241077 |
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9781299241077 |
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