In this Book
- Bread Alone
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Syracuse University Press
- Series: Arab American Writing
summary
In this provocative collection, Kim Jensen gives voice to the struggle of those who seek love in a world saturated with brutality and aggression. Using accessible language and raw imagery, this work offers a searing portrait of the ruins of love and war. The concise lyrics in Bread Alone condemn the violence in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon, while exploring the intimate consequences of these and other injustices. Darkly humorous, grotesque, sorrowful, outraged, and sometimes poignantly hopeful, these poems possess a strange beauty and remind us of the key purposes of poetry—to warn and to revive our sense of conscience and connection.
Table of Contents
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- The Darkest Hour
- p. 5
- Math Lessons
- p. 7
- Confession
- pp. 9-10
- I See Only Faces
- p. 11
- THE NEAREST EXIT
- p. 13
- Down and Out
- pp. 16-17
- Th e Curse
- pp. 18-19
- Removal of Desire
- p. 20
- Cream to Butter
- p. 22
- Song of Jalil
- p. 23
- Automatic Fire
- p. 24
- Colossal Failures
- p. 25
- UNHOLY ACTS
- p. 27
- Angel Flesh
- pp. 30-31
- Let the Girls Run
- p. 35
- Lone Mothers
- pp. 37-38
- Below the Surface
- p. 39
- “The Betrayal of Images”
- pp. 40-42
- WHAT THEY HAVE DONE
- p. 43
- Summer Attack
- pp. 45-46
- Fundamental
- p. 48
- Song of Qana
- p. 49
- The Color Grey
- p. 50
- The Mask Has Fallen
- p. 51
- IN GOD'S NAME
- p. 53
- In God’s Name
- p. 55
- Hard Lessons
- pp. 58-59
- Long Shelf Life
- pp. 60-61
- The Fault of Silence
- p. 62
- HABITS OF THE DEAD
- p. 65
- Song of Fall
- p. 67
- The Color Yellow, the Color Red
- pp. 68-69
- I Have Not Forgotten You
- pp. 70-71
- History of Our Wars
- p. 72
- The Latest Cut
- p. 74
- Birth of a Nation
- p. 75
- UNNATURAL CAUSES
- p. 77
- Category Five
- p. 80
- Bread Alone
- pp. 82-83
- Acting Alone
- p. 84
- EVERY SMALL DEATH
- p. 87
- Rock Bottom
- pp. 89-90
- Honk If You Love
- p. 94
- Moving Harbor
- p. 96
- At the End of the War
- p. 101
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815651000
Related ISBN(s)
9780815609452
MARC Record
OCLC
785782979
Pages
120
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No