An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11,9781587900341

An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11

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ISBN13: 9781587900341
ISBN10: 1587900343
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Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Regent Pr
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Table of Contents

Introduction i
Allen Cohen
Preface v
Clive Matson
Foreword ix
Michael Parenti
History of the Airplane
15(2)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
News Feeds
17(6)
devorah major
America on Terrorism
23(5)
The Twin Towers Arcane
28(5)
Jack Hirschman
The Meeting of the Poet and the President
33(2)
Coleman Barks
On Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
35(5)
Carl Stilwell
Notes Toward a Poem of Revolution
40(4)
Diane di Prima
The War
44(1)
Scott Wannberg
Towers Down
45(8)
Clive Matson
September 12
53(3)
Cory Ellen Nadel
I Don't Know
56(2)
Michael McLaughlin
Peace Studies at the Rhode Island Avenue Barbershop
58(3)
Kenneth Carroll
The Fallen Tower
61(2)
Allen Cohen
Whatever Happened to the Age of Aquarius?
63(2)
Come Rest With Me, O Lord
65(3)
10:45 A.M. Sept. 11/WTC
68(1)
Mark Kuhar
On a Roadside In Ohio
69(2)
If Bin Laden Read Dr. Seuss
71(2)
Last Thoughts 9/11 Voices
73(3)
Opal Palmer Adisa
It Must Not Happen
76(2)
Sharon Olinka
After
78(2)
Daniel Berrigan
The Catholic Bishops Approve Bush's War
80(2)
World Trade Center
82(1)
Julia Vinograd
Jerusalem During a Suicide Bombing
83(1)
Time To Die
84(1)
Karen Elizabeth Harlan
Caves, War, and People
85(3)
Shepherd Bliss
Held Captive
88(2)
Al Young
The Equation
90(1)
Steve Kowit
Will Boland & I Walk Down the Beach
91(1)
Nothing Is the Same the Day After
92(1)
Ann Marie Samson
Diminishing Returns
93(1)
Charlotte McCaffrey
Newspaper
94(2)
Robert Pinsky
The 911 Wakeup Call
96(2)
R.D. Armstrong
In the Land of Honey and Danger
98(4)
Nellie Wong
On T.V.
102(1)
Mariah Erlick
Let There Be Infinity
103(6)
Debra Grace Khattab
Notes On Osama Spottings
109(2)
QR Hand
Small Sacrifices
111(1)
Gerald Wheeler
The Weavers
112(1)
Burka Women
113(1)
That Tuesday Night
114(1)
George Held
On Work, Luck, Roots, Death and Other Debts
115(3)
Eugene Ruggles
Dirge
118(3)
Gary Mex Glazner
Thanksgiving Eve, 2001
121(2)
F. John Sharp
South Tower, 96th Floor, Corner Office
123(1)
The Magician Is Mourning
124(2)
Donna Suzanne Kerr
Sacrament
126(2)
Eva Yaa Asantewaa
WTC Boom Box: The Subway Joke Unsounded
128(2)
Eugenia Macer-Story
Who Were You?
130(2)
Elizabeth Turner
Ash Tuesday
132(1)
Eileen Malone
Off The Air
133(2)
Matthew Mason
The Dead Have Stopped Running
135(1)
Because
136(2)
Dennis Fritzinger
Six Months After
138(1)
David Ray
The Dilemma
139(2)
Black Dahlia
141(2)
Michael McClure
A Little Ramshackle Shack
143(5)
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
There Is Silence
148(2)
Craig Moore
Ground Zero
150(1)
Robert Creeley
On the Destruction of the World Trade Center
151(1)
Cathy Barber
One Day Last Week
152(2)
CB Follette
Home
154(2)
Carlos Martinez
Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)
156(7)
Dr. Brownwyn Winter
Skyscraper Apocalypse
163(6)
Antler
How Do I Explain the Horror?
169(2)
Diego Davalos
A Front Row Seat In Heaven
171(2)
A.D. Winans
The Bell Tolls Again
173(1)
Gerald Nicosia
Peace Invocation After 9/11/2002 Invocation A La Paz-9 De Septiembre/2002
174(4)
Teresa Lee
On the Fall of the World Trade Towers
178(2)
Claire Burch
Hello
180(5)
David Meltzer
Savage Jets Sword the Sky Hungry Bombs Torture the Earth
185(2)
S.A. Griffin
Jesus Poem
187(1)
Susan Birkeland
How To Survive An Electrical Storm
188(2)
On Reports Of Threats Against Arab-Americans
190(2)
Neeli Cherkovski
Boxcars, Nines and Elevens
192(2)
Todd Easton Mills
Black Hair
194(4)
Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Into the Arms Of Angels
198(1)
Timothy Rhodes
High Haunts
199(1)
Tish Eastman
The Blessing Of Terror
200(2)
Thea Hillman
The Double Dream Of Falling
202(4)
Sam Hamod
My Wife Says Don't Write About September 11th
206(2)
Ryan G. Van Cleave
No Such Thing As a Precision Bomb
208(4)
Paul Ghandi Joseph Dosh
The Day After the Cleanup Ended
212(2)
Radimer Luza
Small Treasures
214(1)
Paula Nemeroff Weiss
Morning Rush Hour, 9/28/01
215(2)
Patricia Kelly
Surviving
217(2)
Pat West
Time and Place: 11/11/01
219(1)
Neil Nakadate
Words, Like Survivors
220(2)
Tom Guarnera
A Blessing For New York
222(1)
Marj Hahne
New York Memorial
223(1)
Meridith Karen Laskow
Strangers
224(2)
Lucille Lang Day
Even Now
226(2)
Leza Lowitz
9.12.01 Twin Towers
228(1)
Laurie McKenna
Shanksville, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2001
229(1)
Kenneth Pobo
She Smiles On the TV Screen
230(1)
Karen Karpowich
Volunteer
231(1)
Time To Die
232(1)
Karen Elizabeth Harlan
21st Century
233(2)
J.Y. Ho
Gate 6A
235(1)
Judith Terzi
Naseem
236(1)
Juanita Torrence-Thompson
Ask Me Now
237(3)
John Sinclair
The News of November 1, 2001
240(3)
John Minczeski
Simple Poem For a Difficult Time
243(3)
Jeff Kass
``When My brother and I Built and Flew the First Man-Carrying Flying Machine''
246(2)
Jack Foley
You Are Too Human
248(2)
Miki Kashtan
Excerpts From September 11, 2001
250(7)
Jeff Poniewaz
8:48
257(3)
Iris N. Schwartz
Twin
260(1)
Haleh Hatami
Be Afraid
261(1)
Johnny Gunn
The New York Poem
262(2)
Sam Hamill
Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds
264(6)
Lyn Lifshin
In the Age of Grasshoppers
270(2)
Janine Pommy Vega
Holy Smoke
272(1)
Ira Cohen
I See Again
273(2)
Gail Ford
Die Today?
275(2)
Back the Night Before
277(2)
Skip Robinson
Fourth Of July
279(3)
Steve Dalachinsky
Fall
282(2)
Michael Cirelli
Salem Hill Hymn Sing
284(2)
Michael Schneider
Time Change
286(1)
Charles Pappas
Biographies 287(18)
Acknowledgments 305

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