04166nam 2200661Ia 450 991080749800332120240409234225.01-299-24107-71-61075-517-0(CKB)2560000000098527(EBL)2007823(OCoLC)830324132(MiAaPQ)EBC2007823(MdBmJHUP)muse26633(Au-PeEL)EBL2007823(CaPaEBR)ebr10667438(CaONFJC)MIL455357(EXLCZ)99256000000009852720130107d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBreaking the jaws of silence sixty American poets speak to the world /edited by Sholeh Wolpe1st ed.Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press2013. 1 online resource (156 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55728-629-9 Includes bibliographical references.""Contents ""; ""Editorâ€?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 â€?09""; ""Reading about Rwanda""""The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods""""The Squash Man""; ""The Bridge of Intellectuals""; ""Dialogue (Of the Imaginationâ€?s Fear)""; ""Nelson Mandelaâ€?s 90th Birthday [â€œLive in the Body, Long As You Will, Madibaâ€?]""; ""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 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""; ""Whatâ€?s Fair Is Fair""; ""Poverty""; ""The Gatekeeperâ€?s Children""; ""More Poetry""; ""The People of the Other Village""; ""Wait""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""<div>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.</div>American poetry20th centuryAmerican poetry21st centuryFreedom of expressionPoetryHuman rightsPoetryLibertyPoetryProtest poetry, AmericanAmerican poetryAmerican poetryFreedom of expressionHuman rightsLibertyProtest poetry, American.811.60803581811/.60803581Mason David1954-1618638Wolpe Sholeh1038097MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807498003321Breaking the jaws of silence3950462UNINA