Far Out Poems of the '60s

by Barker, Wendy; Parsons, Dave

• ISBN13: 9781609405014
• ISBN10: 1609405013
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-04-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Far Out: Poems of the '60s includes poems by over 80 poets who remember that tumultuous decade from a wide range of vantage points. This collection brings to life the experiences of people who vividly remember the effects of the assassinations of Medgar Evars, JFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, who lived through the period of the Vietnam War and the protests against it, and who experienced the rise of Second-Wave Feminism, the Civil Rights Act and the emergence of the Black Power Movement, as well as the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Author Biography

Wendy Barker’s sixth collection of poetry, One Blackbird at a Time (BkMk Press, 2015), received the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry. Her fourth chapbook is From the Moon, Earth Is Blue. David M. Parsons, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate, grew up in Austin. Parsons was a recipient of a N.E.H. Dante Fellowship to SUNY, the French-American Legation Poetry Prize, and the Baskerville Publisher’s Prize. He was inducted into The Texas Institute of Letters in 2009.