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Breaking the Jaws of Silence: Sixty American Poets Speak to the World
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Paperback. Editor(s): Wolpe, Sholeh. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Through the support of PEN Center USA, Iranian American poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé has brought together sixty American poets to address the world through poems that not only meditate on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance but also boldly and directly address specific countries. Natasha Trethewey, Robert Bly, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Carolyn Forché, Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Quincy Troupe are just some of the poets whose work is gathered in this powerful new collection.
These poets speak out in the tradition of all poets who speak out in ... Read more
Through the support of PEN Center USA, Iranian American poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé has brought together sixty American poets to address the world through poems that not only meditate on the principles of freedom, justice, and tolerance but also boldly and directly address specific countries. Natasha Trethewey, Robert Bly, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Carolyn Forché, Billy Collins, Jorie Graham, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Quincy Troupe are just some of the poets whose work is gathered in this powerful new collection.
These poets speak out in the tradition of all poets who speak out in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286291
SKU
V9781557286291
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About
Sholeh Wolpé is the author of three collections of poetry including Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths and Rooftops of Tehran, and she is the editor of The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and Its Exiles and a regional editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. Her books of translations include Sin: Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad, which ... Read more
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