What saves us : poems of empathy and outrage in the age of Trump /
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Imprint: | Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, 2019. ©2019 |
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Description: | xv, 268 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11952793 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: The filthy presidentiad / Martín Espada
- Smile / Elizabeth Alexander
- Refugee women / Julia Alvarez
- Binge
- How Nazis
- Subterranean inner redneck blues / Doug Anderson
- Vending
- They roll the tarp / Naomi Ayala
- Ghazal for Jim Foley #5: what comes home / Ben Balthaser
- The face I wore / Sean Bates
- Trumpcare
- I knew I wasn't poor / Jan Beatty
- Failed spells / Richard Blanco
- Dreaming a wall
- Complaint of el Río Grande / Tara Betts
- From ten patients and another
- The chart
- The good doctor / Rafael Campo
- The world that the shooter left us / Cyrus Cassells
- The problem with me is the problem with you / Hayan Charara
- The school of logic
- The school of morning & letters / Chen Chen
- Grievance / Brian Clements
- Crack the whip
- My two aunts / Jim Daniels
- On hearing news of another shot black man
- Capitalism / Kwame Dawes
- Check list / Chard deNiord
- American dream, 2018
- Cradle song / Dante DiStefano
- Now I pray / Kathy Engel
- Letter to my father / Martín Espada
- Borderline
- The altar / George Evans
- Self-portrait as mango / Tarfia Faizullah
- The boatman
- Mourning / Carolyn Forché
- Puertopia / Denice Frohman
- Poem for the poorest country in the Western hemisphere
- Shithole / Danielle Legros-Georges
- Daddy, we called you
- I want to write a poem to celebrate / Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- You are who I love / Aracelis Girmay
- The hands that wanted / Ruth Goring
- The plan / Adam Grabowski
- On confinement / Torrin Greathouse
- Ars política: how to make art
- Three hundred years before these, three hundred years after / Laurie Ann Guerrero
- A prophecy of Amos / Donald Hall
- Another year / Sam Hamill
- To a commencement of scoundrels / Samuel Hazo
- Field guide ending in a deportation / Marcelo Hernández Castillo
- We are remarkably loud not masked / Juan Felipe Herrera
- On the fifth day
- Let them not say / Jane Hirschfield
- Georgia on his mind
- At the access / Everett Hoagland
- Here in a state of tectonic tension
- Visions of labor / Lawrence Joseph
- A prayer for workers
- The mushroom gatherers / Yusef Komunyakaa
- If it weren't for bad ideas, i'd have no ideas at all / Dorianne Laux
- Skinology
- Invisible places of refuge
- The Motherland / Adrian C. Louis
- I give you my heart = Os doy mi corazón / Ricardo Maldonado
- The girl who learned to sing in crow
- Ghost
- Mexico / Paul Mariani
- Inauguration day, 2017 / Demetria Martínez
- Mykilladoreher
- Framework / Paul Martínez Pompa
- Don't let me die in Disneyland / Julio Marzán
- White girl interrogates her own heart again
- The sacrament of penance
- The sacrament of hope after despair / Marty McConnell
- Rage bracelet
- When dividing the unbelievable by the undeniable / Leslie McGrath
- Gossip is forbidden
- Fake news / Richard Michelson
- Still life in black
- What do they do?
- Bunting and the art of non-violence / E. Ethelbert Miller
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Shared plight / Kamilah Aisha Moon
- Why Bruce Lee is sad
- Minneapolis Public / David Mura
- Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds
- On confessionalism
- Dolores, maybe / John Murillo
- Waitress in a small-town seaside tavern
- Overheard proselytizing dreadlocked man's Ghazal / Maria Nazos
- Honor guard / Marilyn Nelson
- Seeing his face
- Gate A-4 / Naomi Shihab Nye
- Driving to York Prison in a Thunderbird / Cynthia Dewi Oka
- As yet untitled: a seasonal suite / Brenda Marie Osbey
- The light (we all came from somewhere else)
- Ghazal: America the beautiful / Alicia Ostriker
- Brother Lo on the prison industrial complex / Willie Perdomo
- Not one more refugee death / Emmy Pérez
- Illegal with only hope
- Way late December 2016 / Marge Piercy
- For want of water / Sasha Pimentel
- From an explanation of America / Robert Pinsky
- If pit bulls had a justice system it'd be belly rubs
- Cotto the pit bull of Borinquín / Gabriel Ramírez
- Breakfast conversation with my oldest son
- A poem for the man who asked me: where are your motherhood poems? / Luivette Resto
- At every family party where the grown-ups drank too much / Peggy Robles-Alvarado
- Heavy blue veins: Watts, 1959 / Luis J. Rodríguez
- The mill of grief
- The only El Dorado that is real: retranslating Neruda / William Pitt Root
- At the tribunals / Patrick Rosal
- For Zella Ziona / Joseph Ross
- All extinction is gradual at first / Nicholas Samaras
- Ars poetica
- A tree in Perth Amboy / Ruth Irupé Sanabria
- The social worker's advice / Lauren Schmidt
- Lucky / Tim Seibles
- Letter to my Suegra, from Artesia, New Mexico / Katherine DiBella Seluja
- From crown decline / Don Share
- Sometimes I wish I felt the side effects / Danez Smith
- MAGA
- Speak now, or forever. hold your peace
- Saheed's silver gun / Patricia Smith
- Campesino
- Christmas in East Los Angeles / Gary Soto
- It burns
- Ezra learns to ride / Mark Turcotte
- At Lowe's home improvement center
- Ajal / Brian Turner
- The ends of the world
- The new dark ages / Chase Twichell
- A history of morning clouds and contrails
- Cracking 100 / Pamela Uschuk
- Self-portrait of America as a revival / Elisabet Velasquez
- Manifesto after the storm / Richard Villar
- The gift / Ocean Vuong
- I am sorry Diane Di Prima / George Wallace
- Blackberry wine
- Prayer for the city / Afaa Weaver
- What saves us
- War story
- Wade Park VA / Bruce Weigl
- In a time of war
- Establishment
- This straw and manure world / Eleanor Wilner
- Death abroad
- Salvadoran woman on Fillmore Street / Daisy Zamora.