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100 Poets Against the War
Todd Swift | |
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Short description/annotation: The grass-roots appeal of peace poetry has seen this book shared by tens of thousands, and read at peace demonstrations from Seattle to the Middle East. It has spawned international versions, and continues to inspire those who oppose a unilateral, US-led strike against the people of Iraq. It marks a moment in the history of resistance to war. |
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Main description: The most talked-about and successful ebook of recent years is published here for the first time in paperback. “100 Poets Against The War,” a trilogy of downloadable electronic chapbooks was first published online on January 27, 2003 and has since made world-wide news from the LA Times to the Moscow dailies. This book holds the record for the fastest poetry anthology ever assembled and disseminated; first planned on January 20, 2003 and published in this form on March 3, 2003.
The grass-roots appeal of peace poetry has seen this book shared by tens of thousands, and read at peace demonstrations from Seattle to the Middle East. It has spawned French, German and Brazilian versions, and continues to inspire those who oppose a unilateral, US-led strike against the people of Iraq. It marks a moment in the history of resistance to war. |
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Table of contents:
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Editorial Acknowledgements
Editor’s Introduction
Elmaz Abinader
from How It’s Been
Robert Adamson
My Collaboration with George Bush
Antler
Pretending to Be Dead
John Asfour
Mark the Day
Rachel Bentham
War—the concise version
Margo Berdeshevsky
Equinox, Africa
Charles Bernstein
All Set
bill bissett
war is gud 4 bizness in th 19th centur
Pat Boran
A Natural History of Armed Conflict
George Bowering
The Good Prospects
Di Brandt
the killing fields
Stephen Brockwell
Hyperbole for a Large Number
Michael R. Brown
Priests’ Skulls
Tony Brown
What You Call It
Minnie Bruce Pratt
After the Anti-War March
Rip Bulkeley
transit
Jason Camlot
Water Dragon
J. R. Carpenter
Averse to War
James Cervantes
I Dream of War
Sherry Chandler
Haunted House, October 2002
Patrick Chapman
Hot Milk
Sampurna Chattarji
Easy
Nuala Ní Chonchúir
Anna’s Meal
Conyus
blood in the snow
Mahmoud Darwish
Other Barbarians Will Come Along
Robert Davidson
The Red Beast
Jennifer Dick
On Election Day
Danika Dinsmore
on the night she didn’t feel like it anymore
Ana Doina
Press conference
Michael Donaghy
The Tragedies
Kate Evans
Unleashed
Ruth Fainlight
The Garden of Eden
Annie Finch
Gulf War and Child: A Curse
Susan Freeman
Sim Shalom
Myrna Garanis
the war is on the kitchen table
Sandra M. Gilbert
January meadow
Ethan Gilsdorf
The Land of Hope
Daniela Gioseffi
The First Long Range Artillery Fire Over My City
Graywyvern
Christendom
Susan Gubernat
Women Washing Clothes in the Kabul River
Marilyn Hacker
Letter to Hayden Carruth
Nathalie Handal
Even
David Harsent
Filofax
John Hartley Williams
News Theatre
Kevin Higgins
Talking with the Cat about World Domination the Day George W. Bush almost Choked on a Pretzel
Bob Holman
For The Birds
Ranjit Hoskote
This Sky of Lost Miles
Fadel K. Jabr
Waiting for the Marines
Bruce A. Jacobs
Brainstorm
Larry Jaffe
Mothers Cry
Fred Johnston
No War Then
Pat Jourdan
Sirens
rYAN kAMSTRA
pEACE iCON 21c
Wednesday Kennedy
Bubble Girl Song
Mimi Khalvati
The Servant
John Kinsella
Candle, Flame, Stained Glass and Prayer for Peace
Kasandra Larsen
We Believe
John B. Lee
A Dark Little Psalm Against War
Tony Lewis-Jones
At Home, At War
Robin Lim
Good Morning Middle Age
Sue Littleton
Regime Change Begins at Home
Jennifer LoveGrove
Untitled
Leza Lowitz
Women in Black
Susan Ludvigson
To a Veteran of the Last Wrong War
Nadine McInnis
Crossing Kurdistan
Susan McMaster
Against the War
Jeffrey Mackie
What Did Adorno Say?
Sarah Maguire
The Pomegranates of Kandahar
devorah major
a short list of short lists
Aoife Mannix
Taking Sides
Fred Marchant
Imminent
Clive Matson
Still True?
Robert Minhinnick
The Tooth
Adrian Mitchell
To Whom it May Concern
Suzy Morgan
An Untitled Place
David Morley
Nets at Gennesaret
Sinéad Morrissey
In Praise of Salt
Colin Morton
Other Demands
George Murray
The Field
Meghan Nuttall Sayres
No Seasons, Only Weather
Sean O’Brien
Ballad
Mary O’Donoghue
Long Sleeve, Short Sleeve
Lisa Pasold
let us step around this time
Richard Peabody
Dubya Anabasis
Tom Phillips
Life after wartime
David Plumb
All Those Home Spun Places
Robert Priest
Are There Children
Dawna Rae Hicks
Bigger Than Time
Michael Redhill
Architecture (Musée Des Beaux Arts, Montréal)
Peter Robinson
Calm Autumn
Mark Rudman
N.O.T.R.O.T.C.
E. Russell Smith
This is the War that George Fought
Grace Schulman
The Border
Rebecca Sellars
Dear Lady, Fear No Poetry
Eric Paul Shaffer
The Flying Flag
Jackie Sheeler
Collateral Damage
Hal Sirowitz
The Hawk Who Became a Dove
Sonja A. Skarstedt
Psychotic Sea
Mr. Social Control
The Man of Principle
Kathleen Spivack
Peace Pilgrim
Seán Street
The Day After
Yerra Sugarman
To Miklós Radnóti
Moez Surani
Untitled
George Szirtes
The Palace of Art
Edwin Torres
King Rat
Rebecca Villarreal
The Paloma’s Lament
Ken Waldman
Where there’s War
Phyllis Webb
Still there are Wars and Crimes of War
Eleanor Wilner
The White-Throated Sparrow Can’t Compare
Ghassan Zaqtan
Beirut, August 1982
Contributors’ Notes
Acknowledgements |
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David Harsent
Filofax
The entire township, heading north in cars, in trucks, on bikes, on foot,
some with next to nothing, some choosing to cart
(as it might be) armchair, armoire, samovar, black and white
TV, toaster, Filofax, Magimix, ladle, spindle, spinet,
bed and bedding, basin and basinette,
passed (each in clear sight) lynx and wolverine and bobcat,
heading south to the guns and the promise of fresh meat. |
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