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- Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
summary
Through the support of PEN Center USA, Iranian American poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé has brought together sixty American poets to address the world through poems that not only meditate on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance but also boldly and directly address specific countries. Natasha Trethewey, Robert Bly, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Carolyn Forché, Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Quincy Troupe are just some of the poets whose work is gathered in this powerful new collection. These poets speak out in the tradition of all poets who speak out in uprisings, seeking to change the landscape despite an environment of oppression, torture, and denial of basic human rights. All poems included were gifted to this anthology, which will benefit PEN Center USA's Freedom to Write program.
Table of Contents
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- Editor’s Note
- pp. xi-xii
- See Them Coming
- pp. xiii-2
- Call and Answer
- pp. 3-18
- Lady Freedom among Us
- pp. 4-5
- Your Beauty Is Overwhelming
- pp. 6-21
- End of the War, 1949
- pp. 11-26
- Night in Blue
- pp. 14-29
- This Place is Here
- pp. 15-17
- Tienanmen, The Aftermath
- pp. 18-33
- All Hallows Eve
- pp. 21-22
- History Lesson
- pp. 23-38
- An Essay on Liberation
- pp. 24-39
- November 11
- pp. 25-26
- Parable of the Jew without a Name
- pp. 27-28
- Summer of ’09
- pp. 31-46
- Reading about Rwanda
- pp. 32-33
- The Squash Man
- pp. 36-51
- The Bridge of Intellectuals
- pp. 37-38
- Dialogue (Of the Imagination’s Fear)
- pp. 39-41
- War Is Never Right
- pp. 44-45
- Athena Looks On
- pp. 46-47
- Jerusalem: Easter, Passover
- pp. 48-50
- Boy Shooting at a Statue
- pp. 51-66
- To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008
- pp. 53-54
- After the Fact
- pp. 55-70
- The Book of the Dead Man (The Vote)
- pp. 56-57
- The Museum of Stones
- pp. 58-59
- Language Acquisition: No and Yes
- pp. 62-63
- On Election Day
- pp. 64-65
- Second Thoughts
- pp. 67-68
- Becoming Milton
- pp. 69-70
- On the Ordination of a Zen Monk
- pp. 75-76
- Extraordinary Rendition
- pp. 77-92
- Staff Sgt. Metz
- pp. 78-79
- Ex-Embassy
- pp. 80-82
- August 6, and again on August 9
- pp. 83-84
- The Allusion of Seduction
- pp. 85-86
- Dear Prudence
- pp. 87-102
- Dark Thirty
- pp. 90-91
- Teacup Manifesto
- pp. 92-93
- What’s Fair Is Fair
- pp. 98-113
- The Gatekeeper’s Children
- pp. 101-116
- More Poetry
- pp. 102-103
- The People of the Other Village
- pp. 104-119
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 109-112
- Contributors
- pp. 117-140
- Back Cover
- p. 156
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610755177
Related ISBN(s)
9781557286291
MARC Record
OCLC
830324132
Pages
154
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013