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GCDS-9781931404082 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100936820 02 1931404089 03 9781931404082 15 9781931404082 BC 01 311 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">City Lights Foundation Books</TitleText> 01 308 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText language="eng">San Francisco Poet Laureates</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>All That's Left</TitleText> 1 A01 Hirschman, Jack Jack Hirschman Jack Hirschman is a San Francisco poet, translator, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the 60s, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is, in the words of poet Luke Breit, "Americas most important living poet." He is the author of numerous books of poetry, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold, The Xibalba Arcane, and Lyripol (City Lights, 1976). 01 eng 150 01 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—possibly the most substantive account of his life and work yet written—which vividly traces the development of his prolific career as a poet, translator, and political agitator. He details his involvement with the Communist Labor Party, the Jacques Roumain Cultural Brigade, and other radical organizations, in his lifelong struggle "to change not only the material conditions of mankind but, in so doing, to liberate that idea—that everyone is a poet—into human consciousness." Included within his address are several of Hirschman's key earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development, as well as an excerpt from his 1,000-page masterpiece, The Arcanes. The poems that follow the address, mostly composed during Hirschman's tenure as laureate, cover contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans, the invasion of Iraq, and the Virginia Tech tragedy. He also pays homage to writers and artists who have influenced his work, from Jack Kerouac and Wallace Berman, to Paul Robeson and Bob Kaufman, to lesser known poetic comrades who have fought with Hirschman on the front lines of dissent. Finally, he includes a number of personal poems which explore the more intimate regions of romantic love. The result is a passionate and moving volume from one of America's most distinguished poets. 02 Poems for social justice by San Francisco's Poet Laureate 08 "Hirschman, a vibrant 75 years full o’ fun, still cleaves to his politics, an unrepentant, unreconstructed Red (which would explain why he’s such a good fit for San Francisco—he makes conservatives and liberals alike feel mainstream). Man, that guy gets around. Then he writes poetry about it. . .This is a wonderful little collection, full of San Francisco, and a fitting note on which to close this year’s National Poetry Month." —Kel Munger Sacramento News & Review 08 "[All That's Left demonstrates the] impressive poesy corpus of this energetic and inspired man. In this collection, muscular and raw political outrage is interspersed with hommage to poet-friends now gone, Bob Kaufman and Jack Kerouac." -Andrei Codrescu Exquisite Corpse-Journal of Letters and Life 08 "Political poet and revolutionary, Jack Hirschman is from an older school of dissent. The poems collected in All That's Left showcase his tenure as poet laureate of San Francisco . . . Subjects span Katrina and Virginia Tech, our war, our parents' war and their parents' war, and the verse is deliberately blatant and unflinching. The majority of the poems are invested in the truth of things, much more than their beauty . . . if you've picketed in the last week, or you're an informed and compassionate individual, then Hirschman is your man." -Jesse Hawlish Slug Magazine 08 "In Jack Hirschman's All That's Left, a book that commemorates his appointment as San Francisco 'Poet Laureate,' we see a personification of [the] two sides of San Francisco poetry-the impulse to change the world through social protest poetry, and the Beat impulse to view the world more personally and also on a spiritual plane . . . . A lovely homage to a recently deceased street poet . . . [is] witty and supple and personal and beatific . . . . [In title poem 'All That's Left,' his] calm lines balance out the political rhetoric of earlier poems and suggest a wise self-knowledge hard-won by an admirable man who has spent his life laboring on the right side of dozens of causes."-Rob Johnson American Book Review 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100936820/images/87286100936820L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100936820/images/87286100936820S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100936820 City Lights Foundation Books 01 City Lights Foundation Books 20080315 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20080315 01 02 10.95 USD