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Front Lines
Jack Hirschman
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Description for Front Lines
Paperback. For Hirschman, the political is the most lyrical. This fine selection of his poetry embodies both. Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 124 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations. When he reads aloud, the words take fire, and on the page they crackle and spark. "Hirschman is tender but tough, with a steel fist in his velvet glove." -San Francisco Chronicle "What this poet brings to us, beyond ideology, is the simple truth that ... Read more
In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations. When he reads aloud, the words take fire, and on the page they crackle and spark. "Hirschman is tender but tough, with a steel fist in his velvet glove." -San Francisco Chronicle "What this poet brings to us, beyond ideology, is the simple truth that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
City Lights Pocket Poets Series
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872864009
SKU
V9780872864009
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About Jack Hirschman
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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