All That's Left
Jack Hirschman
ISBN 10: 1931404089 ISBN 13: 9781931404082
Verlag: City Lights Books Apr 2008, 2008
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Neuware - The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All That s Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschman s autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator.Included are several of Hirschman s earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy, paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781931404082
Inhaltsangabe:
The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All That’s Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschman’s autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator.
Included are several of Hirschman’s earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy, paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
Jack Hirschman (b. December 13, 1933, in New York, NY) is a poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and is the city's present poet laureate. Hirschman translates nine languages and edited the Artuad Anthology.
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Bibliografische Details
Titel: All That's Left
Verlag: City Lights Books Apr 2008
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu