{"product_id":"seeds-of-fire-poetry-from-the-other-usa-9780955402821","title":"Seeds of Fire Poetry from the Other USA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsalm for Distribution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLord,\u003cbr\u003eOn 8th Street\u003cbr\u003eBetween 6th Avenue and Broadway\u003cbr\u003eIn Greenwich Village\u003cbr\u003eThere are enough shoe stores\u003cbr\u003eWith enough shoes\u003cbr\u003eTo make me wonder\u003cbr\u003eWhere there are shoeless people\u003cbr\u003eOn the earth.\u003cbr\u003eLord,\u003cbr\u003eYou have to fire the Angel\u003cbr\u003ein charge of distribution.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeds of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the work of over fifty poets from the other USA - including Adrienne Rich, Fred Voss, Grace Paley, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and Martín Espada. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLyrical, satirical, raging and prophetic, they bear witness against the forces of imperial slaughter, environmental catastrophe and social disintegration. They seek solidarity with the impoverished and war-torn working classes around the world, from Palestine and Iraq, Vietnam and Chile to the beggars on the streets of Washington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poets sow their seeds of fire in the hope that the real globalisation project is the building of international unity among all those - including the ghosts of John Coltrane, Emmett Till, Tom McGrath, Rachel Corrie, Woody Guthrie, Emma Goldman, Tom Paine and the Blue Cat  who believe that a better world is still possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you have been feeling as helpless and frustrated and angry with global and national politics as I have, check it out.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Rain Taxi\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''Keep this wonderful volume in the car, or buy an extra copy for the waiting room of your favourite doctor''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Pete Seeger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Andersen\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New England with his wife, the poet Denise Abercrombie, and their two sons. He has worked as a farmhand, a warehouse worker, a gardener and in a lumberyard. He is presently a high school teacher. He is a recipient of The People Before Profits Poetry Prize and Partisan Press''s Working People''s Poetry Award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurbstone Press published his first full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eStomp and Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2005.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smokestack Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406556897623,"sku":"9780955402821","price":10.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780955402821.jpg?v=1730496275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/seeds-of-fire-poetry-from-the-other-usa-9780955402821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}