Boston Review Chapbook: Poems for Political Disaster
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Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2017 · Education
WGBH Forum Network ~ Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas Connect with us: http://facebook.com/wgbhforum | http://twitter.com/ForumNetwork "In time of crisis, we summon up our strength," wrote poet Muriel Rukeyser. This collection gathers poems—from the eve of the twenty-first century to the month following Trump’s election—to mark a moment of political rupture, summoning the collective strength found in the languages of resistance and memory, subversion and declamation, struggle and hope. Poetry is a counterforce. We offer these poems to readers as Rukeyser did—"not walls, but human things, human faces." Included in the book are Lucie Brock-Broido, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Major Jackson, Ricardo Maldonado, Nathan Xavier Orsorio, and Monica Youn. See our complete archive here: http://forum-network.org
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