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Law and poetry : promises from the Preamble / Kristen David Adams, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Constitutions--United States--Poetry.
- Constitutions.
- Constitutional law--United States--Poetry.
- Constitutional law.
- Law and literature.
- United States. Constitution. Preamble.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Historical poetry.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 82 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : American Bar Association, Business Law Section, [2021]
- Contents:
- Hermit crab / by Stephanie Burt
- Night drive, after a workshop at the state pen / by John Brandi
- My brothers, listen / by Horace Traubel
- La guerre (part I) / by e e Cummings
- The laws of God, the laws of man / by A.E. Housman
- Between homes / by Dee Allen
- Ablesplaining part 2,749 / by Naomi Ortiz
- When I rise up / by Georgia Douglas Johnson
- True freedom : how to gain it / by Charles MacKay
- A curse for a nation / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Shall we fight for the Jim Crow car? / by Carrie Williams Clifford
- To a factory whistle / by S.P.
- From The Mrichchakati / by Śūdraka
- From The ballad of Reading Gaol / by Oscar Wilde
- Thought / by Walt Whitman
- 2009 criminal docket / by Michael J. Howlett, Jr.
- Injustice of the courts / by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
- Offerings to an ulcerated god / by Martín Espada
- Baby's first bath / by Nancy A. Henry
- School bus wreck / by Priscilla B. Adams
- Lawes / by Robert Herrick
- Vacation / by J.D. DuPuy and M.L. Philpott
- Letters of credit / by Steven M. Richman
- From an 'L' train window / by Dana Burnet
- Untitled / by Abraham Lincoln
- The White House / by Claude McKay
- The subalterns / by Thomas Hardy
- Going home / by James Clarke
- Who made the law? / by Leslie Coulson
- All quiet along the Potomac / by Ethel Lynn Beers
- Buttons / by Carl Sandburg
- A death-bed / by Rudyard Kipling
- Kent State, May 4, 1970 / by Paul Goodman
- Freedom for the mind / by William Lloyd Garrison
- I will stand guard / by Edgar Lee Masters
- Grant Park / by Langston Hughes
- To the unknown Dutch postcard-sender (1888) / by Jack Mapanje
- Bankruptcy hearing / by Dana Bisignani
- Kin-Jeh's song about the abstemious Chancellor / by Bertolt Brecht
- Prisoners of the Tower / by Patrick Galvin
- The golf links lie so near the mill / by Sarah N. Cleghorn
- Breathless / by Steven Lightbown
- Untitled / by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Untitled / by Emily Dickinson
- The human law / by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth / by Phyllis Wheatley
- Portrait of a Supreme Court judge / by Louis Untermeyer
- To the Liberty Bell / by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The dark side of trees / by Cecil Rajendra
- From As in their time / by Louis MacNeice
- Aurora Borealis / by Herman Melville
- Freedom / by Isobel Luke
- The same air / by Al Zolynas
- 35 / by Rabindranath Tagore
- In the cradle of humankind / by Karen Press
- The new colossus / by Emma Lazarus.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 80-81).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781639050147
- 1639050140
- OCLC:
- 1263340447
- Publisher Number:
- 99988448811
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