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All That's Left

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Poems for social justice by San Francisco's poet laureate, including his autobiographical inaugural address.
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The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All That’s Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschman’s autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator.

Included are several of Hirschman’s earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy, paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love.

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Price: $20.00
Pages: 150
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Imprint: City Lights Foundation Books
Series: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Trim Size: 7.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781931404082
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

POETRY / American / General, Political ideologies and movements, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Poetry
"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 we already know and so immediately recognize: we have to stop hating each other, killing each other, raping each other, and start loving each other." - Poet News
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.