Poetry anthologies (various poets)

Book SynopsisBefore Black Lives Matter and Hamilton, there were abolitionist poets. In Lyrical Liberators, Monica Pelaez draws on unprecedented archival research to recover, collect, and annotate works by critically acclaimed writers, commercially successful scribes, and minority voices including those of African Americans and women.Trade Review“A stirring anthology…This collection’s merit—the stunning and still-raw power of voices once lost or neglected speaking on the topics of fugitives, death, motherhood, equality, freedom, and war—and its usefulness in a broad range of disciplines make it indispensable. Summing up: Essential.” * CHOICE *“The abolitionist movement made powerful appeals to the hearts and minds of auditors and readers in their efforts to convert them to the cause of emancipation. But as the poems in this splendid anthology prove, the medium of poetry was most effective in creating an emotional empathy with the slaves and their yearnings for freedom.”“This book teaches us that the ‘soft’ antislavery verse was as powerful and as ‘hard’ as any essay or editorial and maybe more effective. Pelaez has pulled off a real hat trick. Her book is a significant contribution to the scholarship on antislavery, slavery, the civil war, and race relations. It is a great set of primary sources that are virtually impossible to obtain. And finally, it is ideal for classroom adoption.”

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Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution

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Book SynopsisWords of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to Americas turbulent Civil Rights era.Trade Review“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” - Grace Cavalieri, Washington Independent Review of Books“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” - Karlan Sick, School Library Journal“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” - Dennis Moore, Electronic Urban Report“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” - R. K. Mookerjee, Choice"America's ongoing civil rights movement reflects the triumphs and travails of struggles for citizenship, equality, and social justice. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman's insightful and illuminating work redirects our gaze toward the power of poetry in transforming the nation's postwar civil rights landscape. An essential book for students and scholars of the civil rights struggle."—Peniel E. Joseph, author of Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama“[T]he collection gives readers a unique access to the poems as artworks. Due to the consistency of subject matter, each section highlights profound differences in poetic sensibility, technique, and voice. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- R. K. Mookerjee * Choice *“Editor Jeffrey Lamar Coleman has combined scholarship with art. There are 14 sections to the book and each is preceded by an essay as educational scaffolding for the poems. Each essay, a small exegesis of history, describes how the poems relate. It’s a masterwork of organization and strategy. Not only African American poets are represented here, the editor points out, and the 82 poets make up a roster that could fill any poetry hall of fame. Some are dead, some venerable, some unknown, but the poems are each honored with context and framework.” -- Grace Cavalieri * Washington Independent Review of Books *“Poetry is an ideal artistic medium for expressing the fear, sorrow, and triumph of revolutionary times. Words of Protest, Words of Freedom is the first comprehensive collection of poems written during and in response to the American civil rights struggle of 1955-75. Featuring some of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth century – including Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Langston Hughes, Sonia Sanchez, and Derek Walcott – alongside lesser-known poets, activists, and ordinary citizens, this anthology presents a varied and vibrant set of voices, highlighting the tremendous symbolic reach of the civil rights movement within and beyond the United States.” -- Dennis Moore * Electronic Urban Report *“This marvelous collection of poems written from 1955 to 1975 brings back the emotions and memories of those times as only poetry can. The short, informative introduction to each section serves both teenagers and adults well. Teachers will want to share these fine poems with their students. . . . his is a perfect title to highlight during Black History Month or Poetry Month, and a terrific addition to school library collections all year round.” -- Karlan Sick * School Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Journey toward Freedom 1 "Had she been worth the blood?"The Lynching of Emmett Till, 1955 15 Remembrance / Rhoda Gaye Ascher 17 The Better Sort of People / John Beecher 17 A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon / Gwendolyn Brooks 19 The Last Quatrain on the Ballad of Emmett Till / Gwendolyn Brooks 23 On the State of the Union / Aimé Césaire 24 Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till / Durwood Collins Jr. 26 Emmett Till / James A. Emanuel 27 Elegy for Emmett Till / Nicolás Guillén 28 Mississippi—1955 (To the Memory of Emmett Till) / Langston Hughes 31 Money, Mississippi / Eve Merriam 32 Salute / Oliver Pitcher 33 "Godfearing citizens / with Bibles, taunts, and stones"The Little Rock Crisis, 1957–1958 35 The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock / Gwendolyn Brooks 37 Little Rock / Nicolás Guillén 39 School Integration Riot / Robert Hayden 40 My Blackness Is the Beauty of This Land / Lance Jeffers 41 "The FBI knows who lynched you"The Murder of Mack Charles Parker, 1959 43 Poplarville II / Keith E. Baird 45 Mack C. Parker / Phillip Abbott Luce 45 For Mack C. Parker / Pauli Murray 48 Collect for Poplarville / Pauli Murray 49 "Fearless before the waiting throng"The Life and Death of Medgar Evers 51 Medgar Evers (for Charles Evers) / Gwendolyn Brooks 53 American (In Memory of Medgar Evers) / R. D. Coleman 53 For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow 54 Blues for Medgar Evers / Aaron Kramer 55 Micah (In Memory of Medgar Evers of Mississippi) / Margaret Walker 56 "Under the leaves of hymnals, the plaster and stone"The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, 15 September 1963 57 Escort for a President / John Beecher 60 American History / Michael S. Harper 61 Here Where Coltrane Is / Michael S. Harper 62 Birmingham Sunday / Langston Hughes 63 Suffer the Children / Audre Lorde 64 Birmingham 1963 / Raymond Patterson 64 Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall 65 Ballad for Four Children and a President / Edith Segal 67 September 1963 / Jean Valentine 68 "What we have seen / Has become history, tragedy"The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963 71 Belief / A. R. Ammons 75 Elegy for J. F. K. / W. H. Auden 76 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy / Gwendolyn Brooks 80 On Not Writing an Elegy / Robert Frost 81 At the Brooklyn Docks, November 23, 1963 / Dorothy Gilbert 81 Verba in Memoriam / Barbara Guest 82 Until Death Do Us Part / Anselm Hollo 85 A Night Picture of Pownal, for J. F. K. / Barbara Howes 86 Before the Sabbath / David Ignatow 88 Jacqueline / Will Inman 89 Down in Dallas / X. J. Kennedy 89 In Arlington Cemetery / Stanley Koehler 90 Four Days in November / Marjorie Mir 92 Sonnet for John-John / Marvin Solomon 92 Not That Hurried for Grief, for John F. Kennedy / Lorenzo Thomas 93 November 22, 1963 / Lewis Turco 94 The Gulf / Derek Walcott 95 "Deep in the Mississippi thicket / I hear the mourning dove"The Search for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, 1964 99 A Commemorative Ode / John Beecher 102 Mississippi, 1964 / Marjorie Mir 105 The Book of Job and a Draft of a Poem to Praise the Paths of the Living / George Oppen 106 The Demonstration / Gregory Orr 112 Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman / Raymond Patterson 113 Speech for LeRoi / Armand Schwerner 113 When Black People Are / A. B. Spellman 115 For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney / Margaret Walker 117 "We are not beasts and do not / intend to be beaten"Riots, Rebellions, and Uprisings 121 Riot: 60's / Maya Angelou 125 Attica—U.S.A. / Keith E. Baird 126 finish / Charles Bukowski 127 Heroes / Karl Carter 129 Revolutionary Letter #3 / Daine de Prima 130 A Mother Speaks: The Algiers Motel Incident, Detroit / Michael S. Harper 132 Keep on Pushing / David Henderson 132 Poem against the State (of Things): 1975 / June Jordan 138 On the Birth of My Son, Malcolm Coltrane / Julius Lester 145 The Gulf / Denise Levertov 146 Coming Home, Detroit, 1968 / Philip Levine 148 If We Cannot Live as People / Charles Lynch 149 Kuntu / Larry Neal 150 Watts / Ojenke (Alvin Saxon) 152 In Orangeburg My Brothers Did / A. B. Spellman 153 "Prophets were ambushed as they spoke"The Assassination of Malcolm X, 21 February 1965 155 A Poem for Black Hearts / Amiri Baraka 158 For Malcolm: After Mecca / Gerald W. Barrax 159 Malcolm X (for Dudley Randall) / Gwendolyn Brooks 159 Judas / Karl Carter 160 malcolm / Lucille Clifton 161 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz / Robert Hayden 161 Portrait of Malcolm X (for Charles Baxter), Etheridge Knight 163 Malcolm X—An Autobiography / Larry Neal 164 At That Moment / Raymond Patterson 166 If Blood Is Black Then Spirit Neglects My Unborn Son / Conrad Kent Rivers 167 malcolm / Sonia Sanchez 168 For Malcolm Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children / Quincy Troupe 169 For Malcolm X / Margaret Walker 171 That Old Time Religion / Marvin X 171 "In the panic of hooves, bull whips, and gas"Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March, 1965 173 Ode to Jimmy Lee / Jim "Arkansas" Benston 176 The Road to Selma / June Brindel 178 Selma, Alabama, 3/6/65 / Louis Daniel Brodsky 180 The Sun of the Future / Thich Nhat Hanh 181 Race Relations / Carolyn Kizer 183 Alabama Centennial / Naomi Long Madgett 185 On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama / Gregory Orr 186 Crumpled Notes (found in a raincoat) on Selma / Maria Varela 188 "Set afire by the cry of / BLACK POWER"The Birth and Legacy of the Black Panther Party 193 The Black Mass Needs but One Crucifixion / Kathleen Cleaver 197 apology (to the panthers) / Lucille Clifton 199 Revolutionary Letter #20 / Diane di Prima 200 For Angela / Zack Gilbert 201 May King's Prophecy / Allen Ginsberg 202 Black Power (For all the Beautiful Black Panthers East) / Nikki Giovanni 204 Newsletter from My Mother: 8:30 a.m., December 8, 1969 / Michael S. Harper 205 [let the fault be with the man] / Ericka Huggins 206 The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why / Denise Levertov 207 One-Sided Shoot-out / Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) 208 Revolution

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Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139

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Book SynopsisDavid Grubbs explores the ephemeral nature of improvised music in Now that the audience is assembled, a prose poem that in its depiction of a fictional musical performance challenges common understandings of how and where music is composed, performed, and experienced.Trade Review"Primarily, in the beginning, this is a discourse on—and through—rhythm, on what it means to pause and to repeat, on all t he many shades of the same and its other, of noise and silence. That the book is able to make you pause and think about all these things while being itself rhythmically (and musically) interesting is no small feat. On top of that, it also manages to be very funny. And like all best comedy, now that the audience is assembled is ultimately a matter of ... timing." -- Robert Barry * The Wire *“Now that the audience is assembled, a new book-length poem by musician David Grubbs, reminds us that listening can feel stranger than dreaming." -- Chris Richards * Washington Post *"A formally adventurous prose poem. . . . I've only read the 140-page book once, and I know I missed many of its nuances, but its audacity and provocation nonetheless moved me." -- Peter Margasak * Chicago Reader *"Imaginative.... A work that combines the directness of an actual improvisation with the well-chosen language afforded by after-the-fact reflection." -- Daniel Barbiero * Avant Music News *"Now That the Audience is Assembled is an interesting and compelling exploration of the boundaries between literature and improvised music, of waiting for the work to age, and between various and different media presentations of its content. . . . Grubbs presents a noisy vision of an improvised musical performance through a different form of writing. Come early, stay all night, get on the stage with the performer, participate or you won't feel a thing." -- John F. Barber * Leonardo Reviews *"Now That the Audience is Assembled shows the possibilities of an imagined and unfolding musical event. This book also offers an excellent example of how specifically musical performance, and generally all performance, might be made to perform and sound on the page through the use of a poetic and descriptive form of writing. Engaging this prose poem invites the reader to be part of Grubbs’s assembled audience of witnesses. And the experiments of music, sound, and writing are offered for you to add to and transform through your own desires, expectations, and presence." -- Chris McRae * Text and Performance Quarterly *"This long form poem is as much a reflection on the contemporary music audience and their responses to an unnamed musician’s experimentation as it is a commentary on the act of spontaneous creation.Grubbs’s writing style – ephemeral and esoteric, with patches of lucidity and remarkable wit – is highly engaging and entertaining, offering a thoughtful experiment in music writing that invites the reader in to participate themselves, performing as one of the assembled audience." -- Toby Young * Twentieth-Century Music *"The slim volume is a masterful metaconceptual play on conceptual art and a pleasure to read. But it is more than just a suggestion for a reader’s own private, internal performance. Grubbs’s writing does triple duty as a poem, a book, and a score for live performance—like almost all of Cage’s writings. . . . The best thing about this book, for me, is that it demonstrates that great scholarship can be great art and that scholarly inquiry on the nature of experimentalism can itself be experimental." -- Sara Haefeli * American Music *Table of ContentsNow that the audience is assembled 1 Afterword 135 Acknowledgments 139

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Book SynopsisHighlights an intergenerational selection of eighteen emerging, mid-career, and established CHamoru authors, including an extended feature on master storyteller Peter R. Onedera. This rich collection includes diverse genres, including poetry, chant, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting.

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Book SynopsisJEWels is the first of its kind: the living tradition of Jewish stories and jokes transformed into poems, recording and reflecting Jewish experience from ancient times through the present day, with running commentary and questions for discussion.Trade Review"From wry quotes by Gol­da Meier to bawdy 'Abe and Becky' jokes told by seniors and life-rein­forc­ing philo­soph­i­cal humor in the midst of pain, JEW­els delights with sur­prise. There will be some­thing new here for everyone."—Jewish Book Council"These poems made me laugh, cry or nod with acknowledgment to the wisdom offered. . . . Zeitlin notes that he hopes to give readers a chance to experience a wide range of Jewish perspectives on the world. In that, he has definitely succeeded."—Reporter"Perfect addition to any poetry collections as well as collections with Jewish story and or joke anthologies."—Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews“Steve Zeitlin is a national treasure who celebrates the voices of everyday life. Wise, funny, and poignant, his book JEWels brings Judaism to life in short bursts of words that explode off the page and infuse our hearts with light and truth.”—Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps“I could not put this book down. JEWels is brilliant, intelligent, well researched, and has heart. It’s an immersive experience in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, but the parts are what matter, each jewel standing on its own.”—Amy Shuman, professor in the Department of English at Ohio State University and author of Other People’s Stories“JEWels is a unique, humorous, and sensitive link in the chain of Jewish storytelling, humor, and commentary.”—Rabbi Moshe Waldoks, coeditor of The Big Book of Jewish HumorTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Ancient Living Tradition of Jewish Jokes and Stories The Parrot Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken The Face of a Human Being Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Rabbi Edward Schecter, based on an old midrash Holocaust Jokes Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken Excerpt from “We Tell” By Cherie Karo-Schwartz 1. JEWels . . . in Stories Now the Story Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Stories Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Edgar Hilsenrath Tales Lined out from an inscription in Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Stories By Esther Cohen Burning the Scrolls Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter A Table with People By Marc Kaminsky 2. JEWels . . . on a Journey Paradise Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Guru Contemporary joke retold by Steve Zeitlin Mameloshen By Steve Zeitlin Bubba Truth Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Jane Yolen Traveler’s Prayer By Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg 3. JEWels . . . from the Old Country The Sabbath Fish Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Cherie Karo Schwartz’s version of Jewish folklore from Eastern Europe and Yemen and earlier version from the Babylonian Talmud The Magic Ship Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’s telling of a folktale in the Israel Folktale Archives Tales of the Razbash By Zev Shanken The Rabbis’ Convocation Traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein The Sweeper Traditional joke The Shammes: A Response Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Rabbi Edward Schecter’s retelling of “The Sweeper” Once Upon a Time in the Old Country Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi David Holtz The Hunchback Traditional tale retold by Zev Shanken and Steve Zeitlin A Cold Ass Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an interview with Sylvia Cole An Offspring’s Answer Adapted by Peninnah Schram and Steve Zeitlin from The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln The Cart Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a summer camp story told by Rabbi David Holtz Blessing the New Moon in Wintertime Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the poem by Rachel Ray Lehrer Faust The Rabbi and the Balagola Traditional folktale retold by Steve Zeitlin Elijah Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale told by Amy Shuman, based on a telling by Dov Noy Parable of the Horse Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Jack Tepper Who Said the Jews Killed Jesus? Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an oral history by Baruch Lumet The Hasid Traditional joke A Nineteenth-Century Hasid Contemplates the Modern World Lined out from a story about the teachings of Abraham Yaakov of Sagadora, as recounted by Martin Buber Philosophy with Noodles Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram The Rooster Prince Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Publishing Lined out from a traditional tale by Rebbe Menachem-Mendel of Kotzk, as retold by Elie Wiesel The Teller of Tales Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter and Marc Kaminsky The Temples Rise Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by storyteller Roslyn Bresnick-Perry Conversations over a Glass Tea Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram Fresh Rolls and Butter By Zev Shanken, inspired by the short story “Bontshe Shvayg” by I. L. Peretz How We Lived: A Tribute to Mayer Kirshenblatt Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from They Called Me Mayer July by storyteller and painter Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 4. JEWels . . . in Jokes Passementerie Traditional tale adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Jack Tepper Telling Jokes in the Shtetl Traditional joke My Mother Liked Telling Jokes By Esther Cohen Taxi Traditional joke Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Traditional joke Schwartz Traditional joke Abe and Becky Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore The Theater Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Herb Shore The Perfect Girl Traditional joke Two Old Jews at a Urinal Traditional joke Time Stamp Traditional joke The Plotkin Diamond Traditional joke Rich Man Traditional joke Golda Traditional joke retold as a clever comeback by Golda Meir The Commandments Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a telling by Rubin Levine Perfect Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram Toyota Traditional joke Worry Traditional tale The Summum Bonum Traditional joke adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a retelling by Abe Lass Zoom By Marc Wallace Self-Critique By Sparrow Jewish Mother Telegram Traditional joke retold by Zev Shanken A Freudian Analysis Attributed to, among others, Julia Sweeney, who wrote a book with this title Jewish Mothers Traditional joke Twenty Years Traditional joke Seven Differences between a Joke and a Poem By Zev Shanken Optimism/Pessimism Traditional joke 5. JEWels . . . from Torah The Tsimtsum By Rabbi Edward Schecter Rabbi Simon Said Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a midrash in the name of Rabbi Simon Jacobson Hillel and Shammai Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter What I Would Tell Adam and Eve By Francine Witte The Original Adam and Eve Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Birth of Memory By Steve Zeitlin Enough! Contemporary tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Razbash Describes God’s Test By Zev Shanken The Prophet Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Moses and the Superhero By Jack Santino Rabbi Hayim Vital Dreams of Moses Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls Miriam’s Wandering Well Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale Lamb’s Blood By Steve Zeitlin A Rabbinical Love Poem By Zev Shanken Twelve Rabbis Went to a Party By Annie Lanzillotto The Lamed Vavniks By Arthur Strimling 6. JEWels . . . Shaped by the Holocaust Tickling the Corpse By Steve Zeitlin Holocaust Jokes Contemporary joke retold by Zev Shanken It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank By Linda Pastan Riding with the Moon Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Roslyn Bresnick-Perry Last Supper in the Krakow Ghetto Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from oral testimonies by survivors of the Krakow ghetto uprising Hovering above the Pit Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Yaffa Eliach In the Janowska Street Ghetto Adapted by Marc Kaminsky from a story retold by Yaffa Eliach The Twig Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from Renée Fodor Schwarz’s memoir Renée In Memory of Those Who Died in Vain in the Holocaust Excerpted from a poem by Renée Fodor Schwarz Forgotten Acts of Courage Adapted by Steve Zeitlin and Marc Kaminsky from Alex Borstein’s Emmy acceptance speech Rachel By Linda Pastan Death Train Lined out from André Schwartz-Bart’s The Last of the Just Kaddish in the Boxcar of Death By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein Face in the Mirror Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story by Boris Blum, retold by Toby Blum-Dobkin 7. JEWels . . . in Glimpses of Jewish American Lives Rummage By Marc Kaminsky Yiddishe Mama during World War II Lined out from the essay “The Healing Power of Jokes” by Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman Plucking the Chicken Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Abe Lass Getting Dressed By Steve Zeitlin No More Birthdays By Hal Sirowitz A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century By Linda Pastan At a Bungalow in the Rockaways Traditional joke Tradition! Traditional joke Jewish and Goyish Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a routine by Lenny Bruce The Great Trick Is to Know Who You Are Lined out from Jackie Mason’s Broadway show The World According to Me Skin Check By Esther Cohen It Reminds Me of Those Old Jokes Traditional joke The Rabbi By Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Reflection By Zev Shanken True Story By Carol Klenfner To Kvell or Not to Kvell Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter The Free-Yarmulke Bin By Steve Zeitlin The Kiss By Mark Solomon The Driver Said By Robert Hershon Clara By Steve Zeitlin Alicia By Steve Zeitlin Sally Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a true story told by Anita Nager Moishe Said Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Jack Kugelmass Abraham Joshua Heschel Goes to Selma By Steve Zeitlin, quoting Abraham Joshua Heschel 8. JEWels . . . in Jewish Foods The Bagel By David Ignatow The Fish By Lila Zeiger Happiness Lined out from a recollection by Moishe Sacks A Jewish Blessing Sung When Placing the Bread in the Oven Anonymous The Atheist By Steve Zeitlin The Jews and Chinese Food Traditional joke The Jewish Waiter Traditional joke The Strudel Traditional joke Aging Parents By Marc Wallace The Schtup Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale by Lisa Lipkin Fresh Fish Sold Here Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz How to Make Blintzes Traditional joke retold by Cherie Karo Schwartz 2nd Avenue Kosher By Dennis J. Bernstein and Warren Lehrer From “The Whole Soul” By Philip Levine 9. JEWels . . . in Conversations with God The Messiah #1 Lined out from Michael Gold’s Jews without Money The Messiah #2 Traditional joke Closer By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Morris M. Faierstein Wrestling with God By Bob Mankoff Somebody Up There Likes Me Traditional joke retold by Bob Mankoff It’s All Relative Traditional joke retold by Peninnah Schram Tevye the Milkman Said Lined out from the story “Tevye Strikes It Rich” by Sholem Aleichem My Aunt’s Ninetieth Birthday Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a quip by Ann Katz The Tailor’s Prayer Traditional tale A Pair of Pants Traditional tale The Do-Over By Steve Zeitlin, inspired by a conversation with Richard Rabinowitz The dna in My Coffee—A True Story Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the story “God and dna over Coffee” by Lisa Lipkin Deconstructing Heaven Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a tale retold by Rabbi Avraham Weiss Levi Yitzhak Burns the Evidence Traditional tale Six Lines By Aaron Zeitlin, translated by Robert Friend To the Rescue Traditional joke Lifeline Traditional tale 10. JEWels . . . on the Meaning of Life The Meaning of Meaning By Bob Holman Who Knows? Adapted by Flash Rosenberg from one of her father’s favorite jokes Hineni By Flash Rosenberg The Angel of Death Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from an essentially true story in Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Land Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale If Not Higher! Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from the short story “If Not Higher!” by I. L. Peretz Time All at Once Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a story by Caroline Harris Soul Sight Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls The Burning Twig Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Robert J. Bernstein Oy Lined out from a spontaneous observation by Eli Levine The Philosopher Traditional joke Life Traditional joke The Razbash on Old Age By Zev Shanken Doctor, Doctor Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional joke retold by Doris Kirshenblatt Yizkor By Zev Shanken The Razbash on Forgiveness By Zev Shanken The Womb Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Moishe’s Wisdom Lined out from Moishe Sacks’s comments in The Grand Generation documentary (1993) The Angel of Forgetfulness Lined out from Dara Horn’s novel The World to Come The Laughing Man Lined out from Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire, based on writings attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Wiesel’s Response Lined out from Elie Wiesel’s Souls on Fire The Fiftieth Gate Lined out from a passage by Rabbi Boruch of Medzhybizh, as recounted by Martin Buber Whitewater Rapids Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from the story “Whitewater” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi The Ring Adapted by Marc Kaminsky and Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale The Beautiful Question Traditional tale retold by Steve Zeitlin Lost in the Woods Traditional tale retold by Peninnah Schram Shmuel Discovers a Purpose in Life Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Coda Traditional tale retold by Rabbi Edward Schecter Concerto Adapted by Steve Zeitlin from a traditional tale retold by Rabbi Eli Rubenstein 11. Final Thoughts Questions for Discussion Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Commentator Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisThe great vogue in Victorian times for matters Arthurian owes much to the poetry of Matthew Arnold and William Morris. Unlike Tennyson, however, neither of these poets is now remembered primarily for his Arthurian poems; as a result there is no modern anthology devoted to this area of their output. This is a major gap which the present volume seeks to rectify. Arnold's Tristram and Iseultis the first modern English retelling of the Tristram legend,a melancholy interpretation of the theme, reflecting the poet's pessimism about his own age; Morris's different approach - the rich sensuality of his The Defence of Guenevere and other poems -clearly reveals the allure thatthe middle ages held for the pre-Raphaelites.Table of ContentsPart 1 Matthew Arnold: "Tristram and Iseult". Part 2 William Morris: "The Defence of Guenevere"; "King Arthur's Tomb"; "Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery"; "The Chapel in Lyoness".

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Book SynopsisIn the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the Irish Civil War; from the romantic idealism of the Spanish Civil War, to the unimaginable horrors of WW2.Earth Voices Whispering gathers together, for the very first time, a wide range of poetic voices that chart the human experiences of these wars, compiled and edited by Belfast-born poet and senior lecturer in Trinity College Dublin, Gerald Dawe. Featuring over three hundred poems by celebrated poets such as C.S Lewis, AE, W.B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney, and including new poems by Derek Mahon and Eilean Ní Chuilleanain, the anthology records the thoughts and experiences of poets as soldiers, patriots, observers, protestors, medics and mourners.From patriotism to anger, passion to compassion, hope to regret, this groundbreaking Trade Reviewan important book, full of despair, but also a humanity that might mollify it. -- Bernard O'Donoghue

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Book SynopsisPresents ten outstanding poets from Britain, and beyond.

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Book SynopsisFor 30 years Anvil championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the liveliest publishers of British and international poetry. This book celebrates that endeavour with the author's selection of the most memorable poetry he has encountered since 1968.

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Book SynopsisThe brilliant Aztec poetic tradition would have all but vanished after the Spanish Conquest in 1521 without the friars who painstakingly transcribed and preserved the poems in the years that followed. This title gives us echoes of the lyrical and philosophical songs, the songs of rejoicing, sorrow, ritual and war, and the epics of myth and legend.

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Book SynopsisA compelling landmark anthology by two of the world's leading scholars of Arabic literature, it will become the key reference text of our age. With translated extracts of works by famous and lesser known but equally significant authors, it will appeal to those with an interest in world literatures and in Arab culture and history.Trade Review'Desert Songs of the Night is a wonderful introduction to fifteen centuries of a literature still largely unknown in the West, without which much of our civilizations would not have developed as they have, from the rediscovery of Aristotle by Arab commentators to the lyric poetry of Europe, from the magical world of the Arabian Nights to the modern revolutionary poets of Palestine. Absolutely essential reading for our troubled times.' Alberto Manguel; 'At a time when the world obsesses over violence and bloodletting in the Arab world, this remarkable anthology, which spans 1,500 years of Arab literary genius, is a stark reminder that there exists an untold story we keep missing about the region.' Hanan al-Shaykh; 'An arresting collection ... Dipping into this enchanting anthology one is struck by the sheer variety of voices that have emerged from the Arab world ... Hopefully, Desert Songs of the Night should inspire more English-speakers to study this wonderful language and render afresh its magnificent literary heritage.' Daily Telegraph, 4 Stars; 'This is a beautiful-looking book and inside the romance and beauty continue ... a valuable volume' Sunday HeraldTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Pre-Islamic Period (Jahiliyya) The Mu'allaqat Ode of Imru al-Qais Ode of Labid Ka'b Bin Zuhair, Su'ad is gone al-Aswad Bin Yafur, Ode from the Mufaddaliyat al-Khansa, Lament for My Brother al-Tirrimah, In the Heart of the Desert Jamil, Oh, That Youth's Flower Anew Might Lift its Head Katari of Mazin, To His Own Soul 'Umar Ibn Abi Rabi'ah, Blame Me No More, O Comrades! Part II: The Islamic Age The Holy Qur'an The Opening Surah XIX: Mary Surah LIX: Exile Surah LXXXIX: The Dawn Hadith, Selected Sayings Shaybani's Siyar, The Islamic Law of Nations Part III: The Ummayad Dynasty al-Akhtal, Youth Departed but Often I Enjoyed It al-Farazdaq, Let all weep for al-Hajjaj Jarir, al-Farazdaq Visited the Folk of Hijaz Abd al-Hamid al-Katib, The Art of Secretaryship Ibn al-Muqaffa, The Rabbit and the Elephant Ibn Ishaq, The Prophet's Mission Bashshar Ibn Burd, Will No Emissary Be Found Part IV: The Abbasid Dynasty Rabia al-Adawiya, O My Joy and My Desire and My Refuge Abu Nuwas Four Things Thou Scolder of Grape and Me The Great Offence Hurry, for the Beergardens are Blooming Abu'l Atahiya Vanity: To Harun al-Rashid Surely Shall Fate Disjoint the Proudest Nose Virtue Cast an Eye at Me Coming al-Jahiz, The Book of Proof: Concerning Asceticism Abu Tammam, In Praise of the Caliph Mu'tasim al-Buhturi, Bodies of Water Like Horses Ibn Qutayba, Extracts from Uyun al-Akhbar Ibn al-Rumi The Chess Champion The Compromise He Defends Himself al-Tabari, The Battle of Badr al-Hallaj, Three Qasidas al-Razi, The Repelling of Grief al-Farabi, The City and the Household al-Mutanabbi Parting Has Just Taught Our Eyelids Separation Shame Kept My Tears Away Couplet How Glows Mine Heart Naught Kills the Noble like Forgiveness My Songs Gave Eyes to the Blind, Ears to the Deaf An Induction Here is the Final Stretch Abu Firas al-Hamdani Thy Fiercest Foe is One Thou Dost Not Fight Grief Amasses, Patience Scatters al-Tawhidi, Arabs and Non-Arabs al-Kalabadhi,The Sufi Doctrine of Vision al-Hamadhani, The Assembly of Qazmin al-Ma'arri From the Diwan From the Lazumiyat 'Tis Said That Spirits Remove by Transmigration In the Casket of the Hours Thou Art Diseased in Understanding and Religion Ibn Sina (Avicenna) Concerning the Temporal Origin of the Soul Epistle of the Soul On Prophecy al-Hariri, The Assembly of Damascus al-Ghazzali The Beginning of Guidance The First Duty of Brotherhood Ibn Rushd (Averroes) The Law Makes Philosophic Studies Obligatory Ibn Tufayl Hayy Admires the Work of the Creator Playing with Fire Ibn Arabi The Wisdom of Virtue in the Word of Luqman Whoso Knoweth Himself - Selections from Tarjuman al-Ashwaq Ibnu'l Farid The Meeting Lo, From Behind the Veil Mysterious Ibn Khallikan, Ja'far and al-Rashid Part V: al-Andalus - Arab Spain 195 Ibn Hazm Of Fidelity Of Betrayal Anxiety Twice Times Then is Now Ibn Zaydun, Poem to Wallada al-Mutamid, The Moon, The Stars, and a King Abu'l Hasan Ali ibn Hisn, The Pigeon Abus Salt, The Incense Burner Ibn al-Faras, Moon of Beauty Ibn Said, The Guardians Ibn Maimon (Moses Maimonides), Guide for the Perplexed Solomon ibn Gabirol, The Ethics of Solomon Gabirol Part VI: The Age of Depression Ibn Battuta, Across North Africa Ibn Khaldun Three Extracts from Muqaddimah A Sign of Royal Authority The Romance of Antar Antar Summoned From Mecca To Rescue Shas 'Abla's Treasure Restored The Arabian Nights The Story of the Envier and the Envied Men in the Judgment of their Wives Adventure of the Caliph Haroon al-Rusheed Part VII: al-Nahda - Renaissance of Arabic Literature Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, The Virtues of the Arabs Ahmad Shawqi From Act I of Majnun Layla The Feast of Time An Andalusian Exile Hafiz Ibrahim, Elegy to Mustafa Kamil Khalil Mutran, The Arab Awakening Ilya Abu Madi Envoi Life and Love Gibran Kahlil Gibran The Poet From a Speech by Khalil the Heretic Ameen Rihani Light 302 Supplication: A Prayer Mikhail Naimy A New Year Comrade! Taha Hussein An Egyptian Childhood From The Stream of Days Abbas al-Aqqad, Drinking Song May Ziadah, Rejoice Mahmud Taymur, The Fare Tewfiq al-Hakim, Song of Death Part VIII: Modern Arabic Literature Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi I Weep for Love To the Tyrant Naguib Mahfouz, An Unnerving Sound Khalil Hawi, The Bridge 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, Apology for a Short Speech Salah 'Abd al-Sabur, The Tatars Attacked Mahmoud Darwish Pride and Fury Promises from the Storm Adonis, Iram the Many-Columned Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, A City Without Rain Yusuf al-Khal, The Deserted Well Muhammad al-Fayturi, Sorrow of the Black City Nazik al-Mala'ika Who Am I? Five Hymns to Pain Mona Fayad, Whisper Salma al-Khadra al-Jayyusi Without Roots In the Casbah Fudwa Tuqan A Prayer to the New Year In the Flux Mai Sayigh, Departure Nizar Qabbani Bread, Hashish and Moonlight Poems May Rihani, The Wedding of My City Antoine Raad, A Poet's Treasure Henri Zoghaib, This Is The Now Notes About the Authors Acknowledgements About the Editors

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection in which Iraqis themselves depict the bombing of Baghdad, the fall of Saddam Hussein, the invaders, the sectarian violence - and in the midst of it all, the hardships, loves, and hopes of the Iraqi people. This title includes poems that represent Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, those who remain in Iraq, and those who fled.Trade Review"The startlingly fresh poems gathered here, which range from the grim to the ecstatic, stand as a crucial reminder that the country of Iraq cannot be reduced to a place of terrorism, for it is populated by real people, some of them poets with real voices." -Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001-2003"

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of 100 poems, written by physicians, exploring the connections between medicine and poetry.

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Book SynopsisAn anthology of coming-of-age poems written by women born between 1945 and 1964. The poems are by unknown, emerging and established writers, women who particpated in the second wave of feminism. They speak with diverse voices and embody a wide range of experiences.

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Book SynopsisIn this collection, 65 nurses from places as diverse as California and Alaska, South America and Europe, tell us in tough, revealing poems and prose what it's like to be on the front lines of health care.

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Book SynopsisPoets to come! Arouse! For you must justify me! Answering the challenge that Whitman issued nearly 150 years ago, this book has gathered together 100 poems by 100 poets, bearing witness to Whitman's enormous influence on American and global literature.

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Book SynopsisThis collection features emerging poets who combine a commitment to innovation and experimentation with a love for the lyric tradition, whose poetry transcends ""mainstream"" and avant garde practice to create new and exciting poetic territories.

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Book SynopsisIn Sweeping Beauty, a number of poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse.

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinarily ecclectic selection of poetry evoked by 'La Serenissima', including poetry from Longfellow, Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ezra Pound, Oscar Wilde, Pushkin, Rilke, Brodsky, Dante and Derek Walcott. With a scintillating introduction by John Julius Norwich, who as Chairman of the organisation Venice in Peril has done much to help preserve the fabric of the fragile city.

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Book SynopsisAn annual intermingling poetry, story (both fiction and creative nonfiction), visual art, and timely cultural and literary criticism. Featuring the invited work of nationally renowned authors, it also provides a venue for upcoming authors and artists.

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Book SynopsisA poem is a vote. It chooses freedom of imagination, freedom of critical thought, freedom of speech. A collection of political poems in its very essence argues for the power of the democratic voice. Here New Zealand poets from diverse cultures, young and old, new and seasoned, from the Bay of Islands to Bluff, rally for justice on everything from a degraded environment to systemically embedded poverty; from the long, painful legacy of colonialism to explosive issues of sexual consent. Communally these writers show that political poems can be the most vivid and eloquent calls for empathy, for action and revolution, even for a simple calling to account. American poet Mark Leidner tweeted in mid-2016 that A vote is a prayer with no poetry. Here, then, are 101 secular prayers to take to the ballot box in an election year. But we think this book will continue to express the nations hopes every political cycle: the hope for equality and justice. Two small but potent words. 101 potent poems.

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Book SynopsisThis is number 16 in the modern poetry series. It focuses on poetry from German and French writers.

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Book SynopsisEuropean voices in translation.

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