Middlebrough. 2008. Smokestack Books. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780955402821. 175 pages. paperback. keywords: American Literature Poetry Anthology. DESCRIPTION - Seeds of Fire brings together the work of over fifty poets from the other USA - including Adrienne Rich, Fred Voss, Grace Paley, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and Mart¡n Espada. Lyrical, satirical, raging and prophetic, they bear witness against the crippling nationalism promoted by the ruling political parties and corporate media in the United States. They seek solidarity with the impoverished and war-torn working classes around the world against the forces of imperial slaughter, environmental catastrophe and social disintegration. Some poems call us to the barricades, some to despair. Some detail the way capitalism can poison even the most intimate aspects of our lives, while others record the bloody consequences of The American Way, from Palestine and Iraq, Vietnam and Chile to the beggars on the streets of Washington. These poets sow their seeds of fire in the hope that the real globalization project is the building of international unity among all those - including the ghosts of John Coltrane, Emmett Till, Tom McGrath, Rachel Corrie, Woody Guthrie, Emma Goldman, Tom Paine and the Blue Cat - who believe that a better world is still possible. inventory #48234

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Author bio	Poet Jon Anderson was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He earned a BA at Northeastern University and an MFA at the University of Iowa. Andersons meditative, lyric poems explore memory, death, and the natural world. My prime motive for writing is self-confrontation, and I find poems the best way to employ language to do this, Anderson said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. My poetry isnt for everyone. Its for people like myself who want to contend with themselves. I think of my poems as intimate conversations with close friends, to whom Im not afraid to reveal my vulnerabilities and loneliness. During his lifetime, Anderson published seven volumes of poetry, including Day Moon (2001), The Milky Way: Poems 19671982 (1983), the National Book Awardnominated Death & Friends (1970), and Looking for Jonathan (1968). His poetry has been featured in numerous anthologies, including The New American Poets (1960), The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets (1985), and The American Poetry Anthology (1983). Andersons honors included a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of Americas Shelley Memorial Award. He taught for nearly 30 years at the University of Arizona as well as at the University of Portland, Ohio University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Iowa.

Author bio

Author bio

Poet Jon Anderson was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. He earned a BA at Northeastern University and an MFA at the University of Iowa. Andersons meditative, lyric poems explore memory, death, and the natural world. My prime motive for writing is self-confrontation, and I find poems the best way to employ language to do this, Anderson said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. My poetry isnt for everyone. Its for people like myself who want to contend with themselves. I think of my poems as intimate conversations with close friends, to whom Im not afraid to reveal my vulnerabilities and loneliness. During his lifetime, Anderson published seven volumes of poetry, including Day Moon (2001), The Milky Way: Poems 19671982 (1983), the National Book Awardnominated Death & Friends (1970), and Looking for Jonathan (1968). His poetry has been featured in numerous anthologies, including The New American Poets (1960), The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets (1985), and The American Poetry Anthology (1983). Andersons honors included a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of Americas Shelley Memorial Award. He taught for nearly 30 years at the University of Arizona as well as at the University of Portland, Ohio University, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Iowa.

Andersen, Jon (editor). Seeds of Fire: Contemporary Poetry from the Other USA

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