Cry Out Poets Protest the War

by Morrow, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780807615218
• ISBN10: 0807615218
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-17
• Publisher: George Braziller Inc.

Summary

Those who practice "the miraculous art of stitching words into a web" have "not merely the right but the duty to protest and dissent."Edward Morrow On February 16, 2003, eleven contemporary poets held a reading in Manchester, Vermont, called "A Poetry Reading in Honor of the Right to Protest as a Patriotic and Historical Tradition." The reading was sponsored by the Northshire Bookstore and drew a crowd of more than six hundred people. Cry Out: Poets Protest the War gathers together the poems read by the participants, many original poems and others poems by such renowned poets as Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, and Walt Whitman. Among the poets present at the reading were Julia Alvarez, Donald Hall, Jamaica Kincaid, Galway Kinnell, William O'Daly, Grace Paley, Jay Parini, and Ruth Stone. Celebrating poetry's vital and historic role as a means of peaceful protest, these poems remind us, as Jay Parini observed, that although it might take time, "the language of poetry seeps through." And that this language has the potential to redirect the fate of nations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 10
Introduction & Thanks	p. 12
The Event: Introductory Remarks	p. 13
Ruth Stone
#288	p. 17
Lesson	p. 19
Eden, Then and Now	p. 21
Mantra	p. 23
Donald Hall
Three Small Oranges	p. 25
Reconciliation	p. 27
A Farm Picture	p. 29
1943	p. 31
Jamaica Kincaid
Proud Music of the Storm	p. 33
Greg Delanty
A Wake on Lake Champlain	p. 41
Harlem (A Dream Deferred)	p. 42
International Call	p. 43
The Alien	p. 45
The Skunk Moths	p. 47
Galway Kinnell
To the States	p. 49
To the States, To Identify...	p. 51
#435	p. 53
Poem of the Propositions of Nakedness	p. 55
I Explain a Few Things	p. 57
The Olive Woodfire	p. 61
William O'Daly
Land of Absence	p. 63
Gautama Christ	p. 66
To the Forty-third President of the United States of America	p. 69
David Budbill
A Little Story About An Ancient Chinese Emperor	p. 73
Easy as Pie	p. 74
No Escape	p. 75
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd	p. 76
How Few of Us Are Left, How Few!	p. 77
Mother in Wartime	p. 78
Peace	p. 79
Official Notice	p. 80
What Issa Heard	p. 81
Julia Alvarez
Message From Hopi Elders	p. 83
I, Too	p. 85
The White House Has Disinvited the Poets	p. 87
"Poetry Makes Nothing Happen"?	p. 89
Grace Paley
Song of Myself	p. 91
I Hear It Was Charged Against Me	p. 92
Good Morning	p. 93
Connections: Vermont Vietnam	p. 95
Fathers	p. 97
Jody Gladding
#560	p. 99
Of Being Numerous	p. 101
Jack and The Bean Stalk	p. 105
Fore Fathers	p. 107
Jay Parini
In Time Of War	p. 109
After the Terror	p. 111
Closing Comments	p. 113
Biographies	p. 115
Acknowledgements	p. 119
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