Terrestrial Music

by Bradley, John

• ISBN13: 9781931896283
• ISBN10: 1931896283
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Curbstone Pr

Summary

The poetry in Terrestrial Music has been inspired by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Martin Espada. In lyrics that explore issues that affect our daily lives, such as ecology, genocide, hunger, nuclear damage, and violence, John Bradley not only celebrates the beauty of earth and the redeeming power of nature, but also confronts social injustice and fully explores the impact of the industrial uses of radium with detailed historical anecdotes and documentation. These poems identify one common source of strength: The earth is part of our identity, our body, and our soul.

Table of Contents

WHERE I LIVE
Where I Live	3	(1)
Terrestrial Music	4	(3)
Involving the Use of the Word "America"	7	(1)
Reckoning	8	(1)
The Angels of Sodom	9	(1)
Two Tangos with the General	10	(2)
On the Death of Pol Pot	12	(1)
"Rifle Shots Kill Girl, 12, Racing Out of Her Bed"	13	(2)
Margot, Otto, Anne, and Edith Frank, Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, May 1941	15	(1)
Bosnian Love Poem	16	(1)
"Improper Disposal"	17	(1)
Cocoon	18	(1)
Insomnia of the News	19	(4)
SCIENCE AS A MECHANISM
To Dance with Uranium	23	(1)
Radithor: A Short History in Four Reels	24	(2)
Watch Alice Glow	26	(10)
Sailors Shielding Their Eyes During Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini, 1947	36	(2)
I Sing the Body Atomic	38	(2)
After Viewing The Queen of Outer Space (1958)	40	(2)
Rapture of Fire: Amarillo, Texas, 1984	42	(2)
Escalation	44	(1)
Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion	45	(8)
Story with Blue and Green	53	(4)
EARTH ANGEL
Earth Angel	57	(1)
The Institute of Nuclear Poetics	58	(1)
Animal Light	59	(1)
Jesus and the Corn Mothers	60	(1)
My Brother Calls from Cleveland (To Tell Me This Dream)	61	(1)
Letter to Dina	62	(2)
Terrestrial Music/2	64	(1)
Mortal Colors	65	(1)
The Uses of Poetry	66	(1)
White Footprints	67	(1)
On the Way to Mecca	68	(2)
On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman	70	(1)
After a Rain	71	(2)
Notes	73