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Front lines : selected poems / by Jack Hirschman.
Van Pelt Library PS3558.I68 F76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirschman, Jack, 1933-2021.
- Series:
- Pocket poets series ; no. 55.
- Pocket poets series ; no. 55
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political poetry, American.
- Physical Description:
- 204 pages ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights, [2002]
- Summary:
- In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations. When he reads aloud, the words take fire, and on the page they crackle and spark.
- Jack Hirschman is a San Francisco poet, translator and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some forty-five translations from a half a dozen languages, as well the editor of anthologies and journals.
- Contents:
- Guerrillas 1
- For Dylan Thomas 2
- Calligraph 4
- Tornado 5
- W.C. Fields 6
- Ikon 7
- A Correspondence of Americans 10
- 2 x 4 16
- Three 18
- Four 19
- Five 20
- In Memoriam Ernest Hemingway 21
- The Burning of Los Angeles 23
- Franz Kline 27
- Jackson Pollock 29
- Dantesque 33
- The Murder of Giordano Bruno 35
- Balaban 47
- Hymn 49
- Fugue 50
- Paris 52
- El 53
- Ghetto 54
- Ray Charles 58
- The Garden 60
- Europe 62
- London 64
- Point Lobos 66
- Venice 70
- Headlands 73
- XLEB 78
- Soul of a Pencil 80
- A Village Poem 83
- Running Poem 89
- Vimba 91
- The Sacrificial Lamb 93
- "Let the Railsplitter Awake" 95
- Worker's Poem 97
- The International Hotel 98
- Nicaragua 99
- Dope 101
- NY, NY 103
- Vladimir Mayakovsky 105
- One Night 107
- Spirals 109
- Mother 112
- Gardenia 117
- This Neruda Earth 118
- Haiti 119
- Ezra Dog 121
- The Unnameable 126
- Home 129
- The Night 133
- July 4th Eve, 1990 136
- October 11, 1990 137
- Nellie 138
- Human Interlude 140
- In Memoriam Ray Thompson (1943-1990) 142
- Jesse 144
- To Julian Beck 147
- The Old Woman 149
- Dancing Dave: In Memoriam David Bronk, Poet 150
- On a Line by Whitman 152
- When We Tear Tomorrow Open 153
- Day of the Dead 157
- The Crowbar Song 158
- Requiem for the War Dead 160
- Wildebeest 163
- Wanted You To Know It 164
- Variation on a Spiritual 168
- Irish Brogue 169
- On the Death of Willem de Kooning, American Painter 171
- Xilotl 173
- Whatever It's Called 176
- Something Basic 179
- The Recognition #2 181
- The Open Gate 184
- Poem For The Millennium 187
- The Love Poem 190
- The Whole Shot 192
- The Happiness 196
- The Twin Towers Arcane 197.
- ISBN:
- 0872864006
- OCLC:
- 49260502
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