Description |
204 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm. |
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Series |
Pocket poets series ; no. 55 |
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Pocket poets series ; no. 55.
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Contents |
Guerrillas -- For Dylan Thomas -- Calligraph -- Tornado -- W.C. Fields -- Ikon -- A Correspondence of Americans -- 2 x 4 -- Three -- Four -- Five -- In Memoriam Ernest Hemingway -- The Burning of Los Angeles -- Franz Kline -- Jackson Pollock -- Dantesque -- The Murder of Giordano Bruno -- Balaban -- Hymn -- Fugue -- Paris -- El -- Ghetto -- Ray Charles -- The Garden -- Europe -- London -- Point Lobos -- Venice -- Headlands -- XLEB -- Soul of a Pencil -- A Village Poem -- Running Poem -- Vimba -- The Sacrificial Lamb -- "Let the Railsplitter Awake" -- Worker's Poem -- The International Hotel -- Nicaragua -- Dope -- NY, NY -- Vladimir Mayakovsky -- One Night -- Spirals -- Mother -- Gardenia -- This Neruda Earth -- Haiti -- Ezra Dog -- The Unnameable -- Home -- The Night -- July 4th Eve, 1990 -- October 11, 1990 -- Nellie -- Human Interlude -- In Memoriam Ray Thompson (1943-1990) -- Jesse -- To Julian Beck -- The Old Woman -- Dancing Dave: In Memoriam David Bronk, Poet -- On a Line by Whitman -- When We Tear Tomorrow Open -- Day of the Dead -- The Crowbar Song -- Requiem for the War Dead -- Wildebeest -- Wanted You To Know It -- Variation on a Spiritual -- Irish Brogue -- On the Death of Willem de Kooning, American Painter -- Xilotl -- Whatever It's Called -- Something Basic -- The Recognition #2 -- The Open Gate -- Poem For The Millennium -- The Love Poem -- The Whole Shot -- The Happiness -- The Twin Towers Arcane. |
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. Publisher's note. |
Subject |
Political poetry, American.
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Political poetry, American. (OCoLC)fst01069520
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Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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Added Author |
City Lights Books, publisher.
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ISBN |
0872864006 (pbk.) |
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9780872864009 (pbk.) |
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