
Civil Disobediences
Poetics and Politics in Action
Coffee House Press
Will be published approx. on 17. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
480 pages
978-1-56689-158-5 (ISBN)
Description
The current interest in art's role in political dissent should help this book find a large audience***With essays by major poets and scholars from a variety of poetic lineages, this anthology explores the craft of poetry as well as the history of poetic/political action (in the US and abroad), the development of ancient and modern poetic forms, the legacy of major world poets, and the intersections between poetry and spirituality. It offers concrete advice about bringing poetry into your local community (schools, shelters, prisons, etc.)***A provocative cover featuring the Statue of Liberty will help it reach its many audiences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
MN
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
779 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56689-158-5 (9781566891585)
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Anne Waldman is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She is the co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action and the author of over forty books, including In the Room of Never Grieve and Vow to Poetry: Essays, Interviews, & Manifestos. Lisa Birman is a poet and writer from Melbourne, Australia. Her chapbooks include Some Things - Poems and Translations and deportation poems, and her work has been published in Poetry Project Newsletter, FIR8, Bombay Gin, The Australian Writer and The Melbourne Poets Union Anthology. Her next chapbook, possibly, is forthcoming from Barefoot Books. Lisa is the co-founder of Movie Star Press and co-director of Naropa University's Summer Writing Program.