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UNINA9910807498003321 |
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Titolo |
Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / / edited by Sholeh Wolpe |
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Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-299-24107-7 |
1-61075-517-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (156 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MasonDavid <1954-> |
WolpeSholeh |
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Disciplina |
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811.60803581 |
811/.60803581 |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - 20th century |
American poetry - 21st century |
Freedom of expression |
Human rights |
Liberty |
Protest poetry, American |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents ""; ""Editor�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Call and Answer""; ""Lady Freedom among Us""; ""Your Beauty Is Overwhelming""; ""Green""; ""On Reading a Biography of George Washington""; ""End of the War, 1949""; ""Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942""; ""Night in Blue""; ""This Place is Here""; ""Tienanmen, The Aftermath""; ""In Mystic""; ""All Hallows Eve""; ""History Lesson""; ""An Essay on Liberation""; ""November 11""; ""Parable of the Jew without a Name""; ""Tahrir""; ""Unrest""; ""Summer of �09""; ""Reading about Rwanda"" |
""The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods""""The Squash Man""; ""The Bridge of Intellectuals""; ""Dialogue (Of the Imagination�s Fear)""; ""Nelson Mandela�s 90th Birthday [“Live in the Body, Long As You Will, Madiba�]""; ""War Is Never Right""; ""Athena Looks On""; ""Jerusalem: Easter, Passover""; ""Boy Shooting at a Statue""; ""Angels""; ""To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008""; ""After the Fact""; ""The Book |
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of the Dead Man (The Vote)""; ""The Museum of Stones""; ""Rules Governing the Exchange of Prisoners""; ""Language Acquisition: No and Yes""; ""On Election Day""; ""Shoo"" |
""Second Thoughts""""Becoming Milton""; ""World Cup""; ""In Prison""; ""Now""; ""On the Ordination of a Zen Monk""; ""Extraordinary Rendition""; ""Staff Sgt. Metz""; ""Ex-Embassy""; ""August 6, and again on August 9""; ""The Allusion of Seduction""; ""Dear Prudence""; ""Asphodel""; ""Dark Thirty""; ""Teacup Manifesto""; ""Fatwa""; ""What�s Fair Is Fair""; ""Poverty""; ""The Gatekeeper�s Children""; ""More Poetry""; ""The People of the Other Village""; ""Wait""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<div>Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including <i>Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths</i> and <i>Rooftops of Tehran</i>, and she is the editor of <i>The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles</i> and a regional editor of <i>Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East</i>. Her books of translations include <i>Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad</i>, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of <i>Walt Whitman's Song of Myself</i>.</div> |
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