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Civil
Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action
Reviews
Howard Zinn:
“This is a book one can feast on, an exciting collection of poetry, ponderings, interviews, reminiscences, by a brilliant assemblage, including Allen Ginsberg, Michael Ondaatje, Amiri Baraka. The extraordinary piece by Sonia Sanchez and Ed Sanders's ‘A Tribute to Sappho' are alone worth the price of admission.”
David Barsamian, Director of Alternative Radio:
“A valuable and inspiring collection that explores the cross sections of culture and politics and the art of dissent.”
Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth:
“Here is the true Department of Peace. Intellectual thought and devotion to poetry as activist goodwill.”
Andrei Codrescu:
“Here, finally, is a book I can teach year after year without fear of its becoming dated. The intense pursuit and practice of poetry at Naropa University is astonishingly fresh and alive in this collection by the crème-de-la-crème of the avant-garde.”
Rain Taxi:
“For anyone who has doubts as to poetry's relevance to the real world, this book affirmatively dismantles such thinking by showing us that poetical discourse and dissent are a symbiotic team with a long and significant history, as well as a place in both the present and the future.”
Shambhala Sun:
“Through a variety of contributor voices and formats (talks, lectures, essays, colloquia, interviews and other documents) Civil Disobediences offers an eclectic and passionate look at how politics drives the creative experience, and vice versa, and the impact that interaction has on society.”
Minneapolis Observer:
“Celebrate[s] the moment when artistic representation of the human experience becomes political, and ideas start to really live.”
Whistling Shade:
“Highly readable, and writable too, in the way that it makes you want to rush back to the keyboard or notepad, meditate, find identity, and make your own voice heard.”
High Country News:
“In need of some raucous poetry, fiery speeches and a few good reasons to be disobedient? Pick up this solid collection.”
Indiana Review:
“An ambitious anthology that provokes poets to ask difficult questions of themselves and their craft.”
Publishers Weekly:
“Refreshingly theory-free and conversational . . . these various texts reaffirm the intersection of poetry and politics as a point where word and action can fuse powerfully.”
Midwest Book Review:
“Strongly recommended to the attention of anyone who appreciates informed and informative discourse that has as its parameters the politics of poetry and the poetry of politics.”
Library Journal:
“Useful to students at the secondary level and higher, as well as general readers interested in literature or politics.”
Anna Vitale, Shaman Drum Book Shop:
“If you write poetry, think about it, or think about art in general, you'll find Civil Disobediences an essential collection of conversations and lectures by some of our most interesting contemporary poets.”
Seminary Co-op Bookstore Newsletter:
“Remarkable . . . these energetic, impassioned, and insightful essays offer an extraordinary range of approaches to the relationship between poetry and politics.”
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