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Breaking the Jaws of Silence : Sixty American Poets Speak to the World /

Sholeh Wolpe is the author of three collections of poetry including Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths and Rooftops of Tehran , and she is the editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles and a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East . Her books...

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Otros Autores: Wolpe, Sholeh (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Call and answer / Robert Bly
  • Lady freedom among us / Rita Dove
  • Your beauty is overwhelming / Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Green / Yusef Komunyakaa
  • On reading a biography of George Washington / Eloise Klein Healy
  • End of the war, 1949 / Willis Barnstone
  • Kubota to Miguel Hernandez in Heaven, Leupp, Arizona, 1942 / Garrett Hongo
  • Night in blue / Brian Turner
  • This place is here / Annie Finch
  • Tienanmen, the aftermath / Marilyn Chin
  • In mystic / Joy Harjo
  • All Hallows Eve / Christopher Merrill
  • History lesson / Natasha Trethewey
  • An essay on liberation / David St. John
  • November 11 / Kim Addonizio
  • Parable of the Jew without a name / Tony Barnstone
  • Tahrir / Marilyn Hacker
  • Unrest / Kimiko Hahn
  • Summer of '09 / Andrew Hudgins
  • Reading about Rwanda / Charles Harper Webb
  • The freeways considered as earth gods / Dana Gioia
  • The squash man / Stuart Dischell
  • The bridge of intellectuals / Richard Katrovas
  • Dialogue (of the imagination's fear) / Jorie Graham
  • Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday ("Live in the body, long as you will, Madiba") / Michael S. Harper
  • War is never right / Nikki Giovanni
  • Athena looks on / David Mason
  • Jerusalem : Easter, Passover / Stanley Moss
  • Boy shooting at a statue / Billy Collins
  • Angels / William Heyen
  • To Salah al Hamdani, November, 2008 / Sam Hamill
  • After the fact / Mary Jo Bang
  • The book of the dead man (The vote) / Marvin Bell
  • The museum of stones / Carolyn Forche
  • Rules governing the exchange of prisoners / David Wagoner
  • Language acquisition : no and yes / Alicia Ostriker
  • On election day / Charles Bernstein
  • Shoo / Carol Frost
  • Second thoughts / Robert Wrigley
  • Becoming Milton / Coleman Barks
  • World cup / Tom Sleigh
  • In prison / Jean Valentine
  • Now / James Ragan
  • On the ordination of a Zen monk / Norman Dubie
  • Extraordinary rendition / Maxine Kumin
  • Staff Sgt. Metz / Dorianne Laux
  • Ex-embassy / Carol Muske-Dukes
  • August 6, and again on August 9 / Maxine Hong Kingston
  • The allusion of seduction / Quincy Troupe
  • Dear Prudence / Juan Felipe Herrera
  • Asphodel / Gerald Stern
  • Dark thirty / Barbara Ras
  • Teacup manifesto / Molly Peacock
  • Fatwa / Sharon Doubiago
  • What's fair is fair / Ralph Angel
  • Poverty / Christopher Buckley
  • The gatekeeper's children / Philip Levine
  • More poetry / Carl Dennis
  • The people of the other village / Thomas Lux
  • Wait / Galway Kinnell.