Present Tense : Poets in the World

by Pawlak, Mark; Hershon, Robert; Lourie, Dick; Schreiber, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781931236393
• ISBN10: 1931236399
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Pr

Table of Contents

Preface: "In California During the Gulf War" by Denise Levertov	9	(2)
Introduction by Mark Pawlak	11	(6)
Jack Agüeros
Psalm for the Next Millennium	17	(2)
Psalm for Distribution	19	(1)
Psalm for Amadou Diallo	20	(1)
Psalm for the Damnation of Pig Pino Oink Ochet Who Unlike His Victims Will Never Die nor Disappear, Because He Was Never Human	21	(1)
Sherman Alexie
One Stick Song	22	(6)
Sonnet: Tattoo Tears	28	(4)
Capital Punishment	32	(5)
The Exaggeration of Despair	37	(2)
After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago	39	(3)
Donna Brook
Poem Wrapped Around Quotation from Samantha Power	42	(1)
April 27, 1994	43	(2)
Message to Mary Ferrari in Jo'burg	45	(2)
Why I Am a Whore	47	(1)
Pink Diapers	48	(1)
Hayan Charara
Thinking American	49	(1)
Hamza Aweiwi, a Shoemaker in Hebron	50	(2)
Here It Is	52	(2)
More Than We Dared	54	(2)
Jayne Cortez
What's Your Take	56	(2)
Global Inequalities	58	(2)
What's Happening	60	(2)
I Am New York City 2	62	(2)
Martin Espada
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	64	(2)
Ghazal for Open Hands	66	(1)
Thanksgiving	67	(2)
For the Jim Crow Mexican Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Where My Cousin Estaban Was Forbidden to Wait Tables Because He Wears Dreadlocks	69	(1)
Imagine the Angels of Bread	70	(2)
Ezequiel	72	(2)
Ed Friedman
Mao & Matisse	74	(1)
Heading for Manhattan by Train	75	(1)
Isolated Bourgeoisie	76	(1)
Cultivation	77	(1)
Joanna Fuhrman
Return to Normalcy	78	(2)
How Many More Minutes Until We Can Devour Our Breached Contract?	80	(4)
Kimiko Hahn
The Rockhopper	84	(1)
The Open Kitchen	85	(2)
Everest	87	(2)
These Current Events	89	(2)
The Glass Bracelets	91	(2)
Joy Harjo
A Post-colonial Tale	93	(2)
No	95	(2)
Robert Hershon
Calls from the Outside World	97	(2)
A Woman Strangles	99	(1)
Minnesota Farmers Blame Bad Crop on Jews	100	(1)
Unless You Are a Horse	101	(1)
Light, Dark, East and West	102	(2)
Anselm Hollo
From Guests of Space	104	(6)
Hettie Jones
Weather	110	(1)
Caught, April 2002-A Prayer for Peace	111	(2)
Laments for the Afghan Women	113	(1)
Emine and Hamide	114	(2)
New Southern Exposure	116	(1)
Genuflection to Petty Officer First Class Leonette Masters	117	(1)
Dick Lourie
Song Embodying What I've Learned in Thirty-Five Years	118	(1)
Portrait in Rhythm and Blues	119	(2)
Jewish	121	(1)
Three Recent Trips to the Golden Past: East Village, Clarksdale Mississippi, Athens	122	(2)
Theological	124	(1)
Letters to the Dead: Denise Levertov	125	(2)
Ken Mikolowski
The Witness	127	(1)
Harryette Mullen
Bilingual Instructions	128	(1)
Denigration	129	(1)
Present Tense	130	(1)
We Are Not Responsible	131	(1)
Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language	132	(2)
D. Nurkse
The Swiftness With Which Those Cities Fell	134	(4)
Liberators	138	(1)
Ron Overton
Psychic Killed by Train	139	(2)
Re: The Tobacco Institute	141	(1)
Two Stories	142	(1)
Maureen Owen
Topography	143	(8)
Mark Pawlak
"Protective and Defensive Devices"	151	(2)
East-West Dialog 2002	153	(3)
Ace	156	(2)
All the News September 23, 2001	158	(1)
Official Versions	159	(5)
Adrienne Rich
The Eye	164	(1)
Usonian Journals 2000	165	(7)
Ron Schreiber
Tomorrow Will Really Be Sunday	172	(2)
The Public Stammer	174	(1)
Somerville Saturday Night	175	(1)
Gay Life	176	(1)
They Kill Us	177	(1)
...To Be Held	178	(1)
Chant	179	(1)
Harvey Shapiro
Bus Ride	180	(1)
The News	181	(1)
M.L. Smoker
Letter to David James Duncan February 16, 2003	182	(2)
Another Attempt at Rescue	184	(2)
Quincy Troupe
Gray Day in January in La Jolla	186	(2)
Transcircularities	188	(2)
"So What"	190	(2)
Signals & Demarcations	192	(2)
Janine Pommy Vega
For Boats Only	194	(2)
Chuck Wachtel
Two Quarters, Two Nickels And the Jacket of the One Album He Ever Recorded-America Welcomes Home the Desert Sax-Are in the Open Felt-Lined Case on the Platform of the Astor Place Subway Station: Gulf War I	196	(1)
Workingman's Wife: Who She Is, Who She Is Not, What She Buys And Why	197	(4)
On Class and Desire	201	(2)
The Coriolis Effect	203	(2)
Bill Zavatsky
Walker Evans in Bridgeport	205