Cry out : poets protest the war / Julia Alvarez ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Alvarez, Julia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

War poetry.

Peace movements--Poetry.

Peace movements.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : G. Braziller ; Manchester, Vt. : In collaboration with Northshire Bookstore, 2003.

Summary:

On February 16, 2003, eleven contemporary poets held a reading in Manchester, Vermont, called "A Poetry Reading in Honor of the Right to Protest as a Patriotic and Historical Tradition." Organized in response to the cancellation of a White House poetry symposium, the reading was sponsored by the Northshire Bookstore and drew a crowd of over seven hundred people. Cry Out: Poets Protest the War gathers together the poems read by the participants, many of them original poems and others poems by such renowned poets as Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, and Walt Whitman. The poets present at the reading were Julia Alvarez, David Budbill, Greg Delanty, Jody Gladding, Donald Hall, Jamaica Kincaid, Galway Kinnell, William O'Daly, Grace Paley, Jay Parini, and Ruth Stone. Celebrating poetry's vital and historic role as a means of peaceful protest, these poems remind us, as Jay Parini observed, that although it might take time, "the language of poetry seeps through." And that this language has the potential to redirect the fate of nations.

Contents:

#288 / Emily Dickinson 17

Lesson / Ruth Stone 19

Eden, Then and Now / Ruth Stone 21

Mantra / Ruth Stone 23

Three Small Oranges / Jane Kenyon 25

Reconciliation / Walt Whitman 27

A Farm Picture / Walt Whitman 29

1943 / Donald Hall 31

Proud Music of the Storm / Walt Whitman 33

A Wake on Lake Champlain / Greg Delanty 41

Harlem (A Dream Deferred) / Langston Hughes 42

International Call / Greg Delanty 43

The Alien / Greg Delanty 45

The Skunk Moths / Greg Delanty 47

To the States / Walt Whitman 49

To the States, To Identify... / Walt Whitman 51

#435 / Emily Dickinson 53

Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness / Walt Whitman 55

I Explain a Few Things / Pablo Neruda 57

The Olive Woodfire / Galway Kinnell 61

Land of Absence / Gabriela Mistral 63

Gautama Christ / Pablo Neruda 66

To the Forty-third President of the United States of America / William O'Daly 69

A Little Story About An Ancient Chinese Emperor / David Budbill 73

Easy as Pie / David Budbill 74

No Escape / David Budbill 75

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd / Walt Whitman 76

How Few of Us Are Left, How Few! / Anonymous 77

Mother in Wartime / Langston Hughes 78

Peace / Langston Hughes 79

Official Notice / Langston Hughes 80

What Issa Heard / David Budbill 81

Message From Hopi Elders / Hopi Elders 83

I, Too / Langston Hughes 85

The White House Has Disinvited the Poets / Julia Alvarez 87

"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen"? / Julia Alvarez 89

Grace Paley

Song of Myself / Walt Whitman 91

I Hear It Was Charged Against Me / Walt Whitman 92

Good Morning / Langston Hughes 93

Connections: Vermont Vietnam / Grace Paley 95

Fathers / Grace Paley 97

#560 / Emily Dickinson 99

Of Being Numerous / George Oppen 101

Jack and The Bean Stalk / Jody Gladding 105

Fore Fathers / Jody Gladding 107

In Time Of War / Jay Parini 109

After the Terror / Jay Parini 111.

ISBN:

0807615218 :

OCLC:

52569532