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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Hirschman is tender but tough, with a steel fist in his velvet glove.—San Francisco Chronicle
What this poet brings to us, beyond ideology, is the simple truth that we already know and so immediately recognize: we have to stop hating each other, killing each other, raping each other, and start loving each other.—Poet News
. . . one of the left’s most prolific and consistent poetic voices.—Contemporary Poets
For a poet as prolific as Jack Hirschman, the 224 pages of his new City Lights book Fro
