Bibliograph

Indivisible, poems for social justice, edited by Gail Bush & Randy Meyer ; foreword by Common

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Label

Indivisible, poems for social justice, edited by Gail Bush & Randy Meyer ; foreword by Common

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Indivisible

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

795020502

Responsibility statement

edited by Gail Bush & Randy Meyer ; foreword by Common

Sub title

poems for social justice

Summary

This anthology includes over 50 works of poetry by 20th century writers on issues related to social justice in American society

Table Of 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 Gomez-Pena ; 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 Muller ; La migra / Pat Mora ; Picasso / Ellyn Maybe ; Sure you can ask me a personal question / Diane Burns ; L.A. prayer / Francisco X. Alarcon. -- 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 poen 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 man / 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

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