An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11

by COHEN ALLEN (ED)

• ISBN13: 9781587900341
• ISBN10: 1587900343
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Regent Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	i
Allen Cohen
Preface	v
Clive Matson
Foreword	ix
Michael Parenti
History of the Airplane	15	(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
News Feeds	17	(6)
devorah major
America on Terrorism	23	(5)
The Twin Towers Arcane	28	(5)
Jack Hirschman
The Meeting of the Poet and the President	33	(2)
Coleman Barks
On Crossing Brooklyn Ferry	35	(5)
Carl Stilwell
Notes Toward a Poem of Revolution	40	(4)
Diane di Prima
The War	44	(1)
Scott Wannberg
Towers Down	45	(8)
Clive Matson
September 12	53	(3)
Cory Ellen Nadel
I Don't Know	56	(2)
Michael McLaughlin
Peace Studies at the Rhode Island Avenue Barbershop	58	(3)
Kenneth Carroll
The Fallen Tower	61	(2)
Allen Cohen
Whatever Happened to the Age of Aquarius?	63	(2)
Come Rest With Me, O Lord	65	(3)
10:45 A.M. Sept. 11/WTC	68	(1)
Mark Kuhar
On a Roadside In Ohio	69	(2)
If Bin Laden Read Dr. Seuss	71	(2)
Last Thoughts 9/11 Voices	73	(3)
Opal Palmer Adisa
It Must Not Happen	76	(2)
Sharon Olinka
After	78	(2)
Daniel Berrigan
The Catholic Bishops Approve Bush's War	80	(2)
World Trade Center	82	(1)
Julia Vinograd
Jerusalem During a Suicide Bombing	83	(1)
Time To Die	84	(1)
Karen Elizabeth Harlan
Caves, War, and People	85	(3)
Shepherd Bliss
Held Captive	88	(2)
Al Young
The Equation	90	(1)
Steve Kowit
Will Boland & I Walk Down the Beach	91	(1)
Nothing Is the Same the Day After	92	(1)
Ann Marie Samson
Diminishing Returns	93	(1)
Charlotte McCaffrey
Newspaper	94	(2)
Robert Pinsky
The 911 Wakeup Call	96	(2)
R.D. Armstrong
In the Land of Honey and Danger	98	(4)
Nellie Wong
On T.V.	102	(1)
Mariah Erlick
Let There Be Infinity	103	(6)
Debra Grace Khattab
Notes On Osama Spottings	109	(2)
QR Hand
Small Sacrifices	111	(1)
Gerald Wheeler
The Weavers	112	(1)
Burka Women	113	(1)
That Tuesday Night	114	(1)
George Held
On Work, Luck, Roots, Death and Other Debts	115	(3)
Eugene Ruggles
Dirge	118	(3)
Gary Mex Glazner
Thanksgiving Eve, 2001	121	(2)
F. John Sharp
South Tower, 96th Floor, Corner Office	123	(1)
The Magician Is Mourning	124	(2)
Donna Suzanne Kerr
Sacrament	126	(2)
Eva Yaa Asantewaa
WTC Boom Box: The Subway Joke Unsounded	128	(2)
Eugenia Macer-Story
Who Were You?	130	(2)
Elizabeth Turner
Ash Tuesday	132	(1)
Eileen Malone
Off The Air	133	(2)
Matthew Mason
The Dead Have Stopped Running	135	(1)
Because	136	(2)
Dennis Fritzinger
Six Months After	138	(1)
David Ray
The Dilemma	139	(2)
Black Dahlia	141	(2)
Michael McClure
A Little Ramshackle Shack	143	(5)
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
There Is Silence	148	(2)
Craig Moore
Ground Zero	150	(1)
Robert Creeley
On the Destruction of the World Trade Center	151	(1)
Cathy Barber
One Day Last Week	152	(2)
CB Follette
Home	154	(2)
Carlos Martinez
Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)	156	(7)
Dr. Brownwyn Winter
Skyscraper Apocalypse	163	(6)
Antler
How Do I Explain the Horror?	169	(2)
Diego Davalos
A Front Row Seat In Heaven	171	(2)
A.D. Winans
The Bell Tolls Again	173	(1)
Gerald Nicosia
Peace Invocation After 9/11/2002 Invocation A La Paz-9 De Septiembre/2002	174	(4)
Teresa Lee
On the Fall of the World Trade Towers	178	(2)
Claire Burch
Hello	180	(5)
David Meltzer
Savage Jets Sword the Sky Hungry Bombs Torture the Earth	185	(2)
S.A. Griffin
Jesus Poem	187	(1)
Susan Birkeland
How To Survive An Electrical Storm	188	(2)
On Reports Of Threats Against Arab-Americans	190	(2)
Neeli Cherkovski
Boxcars, Nines and Elevens	192	(2)
Todd Easton Mills
Black Hair	194	(4)
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Into the Arms Of Angels	198	(1)
Timothy Rhodes
High Haunts	199	(1)
Tish Eastman
The Blessing Of Terror	200	(2)
Thea Hillman
The Double Dream Of Falling	202	(4)
Sam Hamod
My Wife Says Don't Write About September 11th	206	(2)
Ryan G. Van Cleave
No Such Thing As a Precision Bomb	208	(4)
Paul Ghandi Joseph Dosh
The Day After the Cleanup Ended	212	(2)
Radimer Luza
Small Treasures	214	(1)
Paula Nemeroff Weiss
Morning Rush Hour, 9/28/01	215	(2)
Patricia Kelly
Surviving	217	(2)
Pat West
Time and Place: 11/11/01	219	(1)
Neil Nakadate
Words, Like Survivors	220	(2)
Tom Guarnera
A Blessing For New York	222	(1)
Marj Hahne
New York Memorial	223	(1)
Meridith Karen Laskow
Strangers	224	(2)
Lucille Lang Day
Even Now	226	(2)
Leza Lowitz
9.12.01 Twin Towers	228	(1)
Laurie McKenna
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2001	229	(1)
Kenneth Pobo
She Smiles On the TV Screen	230	(1)
Karen Karpowich
Volunteer	231	(1)
Time To Die	232	(1)
Karen Elizabeth Harlan
21st Century	233	(2)
J.Y. Ho
Gate 6A	235	(1)
Judith Terzi
Naseem	236	(1)
Juanita Torrence-Thompson
Ask Me Now	237	(3)
John Sinclair
The News of November 1, 2001	240	(3)
John Minczeski
Simple Poem For a Difficult Time	243	(3)
Jeff Kass
``When My brother and I Built and Flew the First Man-Carrying Flying Machine''	246	(2)
Jack Foley
You Are Too Human	248	(2)
Miki Kashtan
Excerpts From September 11, 2001	250	(7)
Jeff Poniewaz
8:48	257	(3)
Iris N. Schwartz
Twin	260	(1)
Haleh Hatami
Be Afraid	261	(1)
Johnny Gunn
The New York Poem	262	(2)
Sam Hamill
Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds	264	(6)
Lyn Lifshin
In the Age of Grasshoppers	270	(2)
Janine Pommy Vega
Holy Smoke	272	(1)
Ira Cohen
I See Again	273	(2)
Gail Ford
Die Today?	275	(2)
Back the Night Before	277	(2)
Skip Robinson
Fourth Of July	279	(3)
Steve Dalachinsky
Fall	282	(2)
Michael Cirelli
Salem Hill Hymn Sing	284	(2)
Michael Schneider
Time Change	286	(1)
Charles Pappas
Biographies	287	(18)
Acknowledgments	305