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Civil
Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action
Reviews
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.”
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.
Students, poets, and, for that matter, anybody interested
in ideas can spend a useful eon dreaming herein. As
my old master, Ted Berrigan, says ‘You have to
be true, and you owe everything to your feelings, and
you have to make sure you get them right.’ This
book doesn't just get them right, it puts them to work
in the fantastic universe, in gorgeously erudite, playful,
and painful explorings.”
Thurston
Moore, Sonic Youth:
“Here is the true Department of Peace. Intellectual
thought and devotion to poetry as activist goodwill.
Prayers for the warmongers.”
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.”
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