Breaking the jaws of silence [[electronic resource] ] : sixty American poets speak to the world / / edited by Sholeh Wolpe

• Pubblicazione: Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.60803581; 811/.60803581
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century; American poetry - 21st century; Freedom of expression; Human rights; Liberty; Protest poetry, American
• Altri autori: MasonDavid <1954-> WolpeSholeh
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 [“Live 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Breaking the jaws of silence
• ISBN: 1-299-24107-7; 1-61075-517-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792080903321
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