Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World

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Breaking the Jaws of Silence Breaking the Jaws of Silence ✦ ✦ ✦ SIXTY AMERICAN POETS SPEAK TO THE WORLD Edited by Sholeh Wolpé The University of Arkansas Press Fayetteville 2013 Copyright © 2013 by The University of Arkansas Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN-10: 1-55728-629-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-629-1 17 16 15 14 13 5 4 3 2 1 Text design by Ellen Beeler ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpé. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-55728-629-1 — ISBN 1-55728-629-9 1. Protest poetry, American. 2. Human rights—Poetry. 3. Liberty—Poetry. 4. Freedom of expression—Poetry. 5. American poetry—21st century. 6. American poetry—20th century. I. Wolpé, Sholeh, editor of compilation. PS593.P77B74 2013 811'.60803581—dc23 2012045632 Dedicated to you, because the world is one country and poetry its language. “We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.” —Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times ...