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Contents AUTHOR’S PREFACE: A Context • xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • xv Certain Personae Kwansaba for Richard Wright • 3 Kwansaba for Amiri Baraka • 4 Kwansaba for Jayne Cortez • 5 Song for Angela Davis in the Women’s House of Detention • 6 Naked Woman Walks Down the Street • 7 Chanel, Arbus, Duccio • 8 John Updike and My Mother • 10 Lincoln’s Summer House • 11 Poem for Elizabeth Cady Stanton • 12 Hannibal Crossing the Alps • 16 Mostly Political “April is the cruellest month . . .” • 21 Email Surveillance • 22 Polar Icecaps • 23 Daybreak • 24 Capitalism • 25 x Turtle • 28 Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale • 30 April 2004 • 33 A Chipped Tooth • 34 New York Epic • 35 Wars Those Policemen Are Sleeping • 41 To My Unknown Sister in Beirut • 44 Gulf War • 46 Delivering Mail in Fallujah • 56 Bombing Blues • 59 Suicide Bomber (2001, 2009) • 61 Just Breathing • 63 Some Questions for a Missile • 65 Artillerymen in the Shower • 66 Hecuba to Hector • 68 Service for the Dead • 69 For Gaza • 70 Variations on a Theme by Andrea Mantegna • 71 ...

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