| Description |
94 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Summary |
This anthology includes over 50 works of poetry by 20th century writers on issues related to social justice in American society. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 82-89) and index. |
| Contents |
Liberty was Misquoted. Immigrants / Nancy Byrd Turner ; Enemies / Wendell Berry ; The ISM / Wanda Coleman ; Discrimination / Kenneth Rexroth ; The news you don't get at home / Luis J. Rodriguez ; Wise I / Amiri Baraka ; Poem in the American manner / Dorothy Parker ; Possessor's pity / George Abbe ; Liberty needs glasses / Tupac Shakur -- We Are All Getting Burned. Misery / Langston Hughes ; Mexico is sinking / Guillermo Gómez-Peña ; Columbus Day / Jimmie Durham ; Points of view / Ishmael Reed ; The handicapped / Philip Dacey ; Bilingual Christmas / Pat Mora ; Man in space / Billy Collins ; Indian movie, New Jersey / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ; The geography of poetry / Assotto Saint ; Invisibility poem: lesbian / Ilze Mueller ; La migra / Pat Mora ; Picasso / Ellyn Maybe ; Sure you can ask me a personal question / Diane Burns ; L.A. prayer / Francisco X. Alarcón -- Giving Secrets Away. Other people's lives / Alice Mishkin ; Windshield / Alicia Ostriker ; St. Peter Claver / Toi Derricotte ; Being a good Americani / Fawaz Turki ; Looking back / Gogisgi ; Award / Ray Durem ; In response to executive order 9066 / Dwight Okita ; Harlem Hopscotch / Maya Angelou ; Please fire me / Deborah Garrison ; The legend / Garrett Hongo ; White lies / Natasha Trethewey ; This is a poem to my son Peter / Peter Meinke ; Warning / Mitsuye Yamada -- The Signals We Give. Outwitted / Edwin Markham ; My great grandfather's slaves / Wendell Berry ; Riding the D-train / Enid Dame ; jap / Lee Herrick ; Admission of failure / Phyllis Koestenbaum ; Anglo-Saxon Protestant heterosexual men / Wendell Berry ; Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; A ritual to read to each other / William Stafford ; Failing in the presence of ants / Gary Soto ; Sunrise / Mary Oliver -- The Next Thing to Happen. The greater thing / Edwin Markham ; Piece by piece / Luis J. Rodriguez ; Freedom of expression / William Stafford ; Marked / Carmen Tafolla ; Prayer / Louis Untermeyer ; The last word / Amina Baraka ; Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo ; Being a person / William Stafford. |
| Subject |
Social problems -- Poetry.
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Social justice -- Poetry.
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Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
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Social problems. (OCoLC)fst01122778
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Lyrik. (DE-588)4036774-5
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Amerikanisches Englisch. (DE-588)4094804-3
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Bush, Gail, editor.
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Meyer, Randy, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781603574174 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1603574174 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781603574136 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1603574131 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781480610934 (PawPrints) |
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1480610933 (PawPrints) |
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