Breaking the jaws of silence : sixty American poets speak to the world / edited by Sholeh Wolpe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mason, David, 1954-

Wolpe, Sholeh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--21st century.

Freedom of expression--Poetry.

Freedom of expression.

Human rights--Poetry.

Human rights.

Liberty--Poetry.

Liberty.

Protest poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

Summary:

<div>Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including <i>Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths</i> and <i>Rooftops of Tehran</i>, and she is the editor of <i>The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles</i> and a regional editor of <i>Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East</i>. Her books of translations include <i>Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad</i>, which was awarded the Lois Roth Persian Translations Award in 2010, and a Persian translation of <i>Walt Whitman's Song of Myself</i>.</div>

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""Editor�s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Call and Answer""; ""Lady Freedom among Us""; ""Your Beauty Is Overwhelming""; ""Green""; ""On Reading a Biography of George Washington""; ""End of the War, 1949""; ""Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942""; ""Night in Blue""; ""This Place is Here""; ""Tienanmen, The Aftermath""; ""In Mystic""; ""All Hallows Eve""; ""History Lesson""; ""An Essay on Liberation""; ""November 11""; ""Parable of the Jew without a Name""; ""Tahrir""; ""Unrest""; ""Summer of �09""; ""Reading about Rwanda""

""The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods""""The Squash Man""; ""The Bridge of Intellectuals""; ""Dialogue (Of the Imagination�s Fear)""; ""Nelson Mandela�s 90th Birthday [“Live in the Body, Long As You Will, Madiba�]""; ""War Is Never Right""; ""Athena Looks On""; ""Jerusalem: Easter, Passover""; ""Boy Shooting at a Statue""; ""Angels""; ""To Salah Al Hamdani, November, 2008""; ""After the Fact""; ""The Book of the Dead Man (The Vote)""; ""The Museum of Stones""; ""Rules Governing the Exchange of Prisoners""; ""Language Acquisition: No and Yes""; ""On Election Day""; ""Shoo""

""Second Thoughts""""Becoming Milton""; ""World Cup""; ""In Prison""; ""Now""; ""On the Ordination of a Zen Monk""; ""Extraordinary Rendition""; ""Staff Sgt. Metz""; ""Ex-Embassy""; ""August 6, and again on August 9""; ""The Allusion of Seduction""; ""Dear Prudence""; ""Asphodel""; ""Dark Thirty""; ""Teacup Manifesto""; ""Fatwa""; ""What�s Fair Is Fair""; ""Poverty""; ""The Gatekeeper�s Children""; ""More Poetry""; ""The People of the Other Village""; ""Wait""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-299-24107-7

1-61075-517-0

OCLC:

830324132