Bøger af Jack Hirschman

This is a poetry anthology for activists, a poetry of transformative action and engagement. Overthrowing Capitalism, Vol. 3: Reclaiming Community brings together 79 poets, cultural activists writing in twelve languages (with translations), offering their visions around the theme of this year's anthology, Reclaiming Community. As every gentrified or ghettoized neighborhood knows, capitalism destroys communities. So how do we restore community, arrive back at community, how do we reclaim community? This is the 3rd volume of Overthrowing Capitalism, published annually by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade of San Francisco. All three anthologies were edited by brigadistas Jack Hirschman and John Curl. The Brigade started here in San Francisco and now encompasses brigades of activist poets in other cities nationally and internationally, all responding with transformative culture in this emerging era of revolutionary social upheaval.

This is the second annual volume of an anthology and cultural festival in San Francisco. How can a small volume of poetry overthrow a world order? Poetry can bring us together and heal many deep wounds. The 61 poets in this volume are doctors and visionaries. This troubled time is in desperate need of vision. In the regime we live under today, wealth is power. Transnational financial institutions run our world to extract wealth and privatize it into the hands of a tiny elite. The elite then uses that wealth to make the world their personal playground and to perpetuate the system. It's called capitalism. Read some of these poems out loud. They contain the answers to many of the deepest questions of our time. Sometimes you can find the meanings in the spaces between the words, in the music of the syllables, in the friction of homonyms, in your thoughts or emotions after you have read the poem, or in the poem that is hovering in the air of your room, that you just need to catch and pull down into your heart. We want a world structured around people caring for each other and for the environment, looking out for the best interests of all, an equitable civilization, a sustainable, thriving planet to pass down to our great-grandchildren. What prevents us from having that? Capitalism requires people to maintain a low level of consciousness based on individualism, competition, consumption. A world based on sharing is only possible through raised consciousness, and poets and artists are among the gatekeepers of our consciousness. The spirit embodied in the poetry in this little volume is at the cutting edge of all that is most relevant to the future of this beautiful threatened world.

This book is not a collection of Pasolini's work, instead it serves as an ode to him. Beginning with an interview between Jack Hirschman and Justin Desmangles, and followed by two arcanes written by Hirschman which reflect on the man Pasolini was, this slim edition is a companion piece to honor a voice silenced before its time. I highly recommend adding the book In Danger (City Light Books, 2010) as a companion to this book. The book, edited by Jack Hirschman, is a wonderful introduction to Pasolini and his works. Passion, Provocation and Prophecy is a wonderful dialogue to those who have an interest, love, understanding, and appreciation for not only Pasolini's work but for the man he was

This anthology contains the word visions and ideas brought forth on November 15, 2014, when over 40 poets, speakers, and musicians gathered in collaboration and celebration on the theme Overthrowing Capitalism, organized by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade in conjunction with the World Poetry Movement. at the Emerald Tablet Gallery in San Francisco. We hope you will agree with us that this anthology is filled with sophisticated and inspiring insights, ideas, exposés, and analyses from poets who are serious about the work ahead. Words that unmask capitalism and raise our consciousness to hopefully lead the world into a more co-operative society. What is capitalism? Might it be reformed into a constructive force, or can we move beyond it only by overthrowing it? What does overthrowing capitalism look like? How do we know when it's overthrown? What might a post-capitalist world look like? This century is issuing in an era of unprecedented planetary crises, and we have only a short time to transform these many looming disasters into a powerful movement for a constructive revolutionary future. We call on all poets and all people to join us in making a new beginning, to reach deep into your center and bring forth the energies that can lead humanity and the natural world into a bright future, and we call on you all to become visionaries.

The Viet Arcane is a poetic vision of the Viet Nam War written in the early 1970''s. It was inspired by a book by René Depestre, A Rainbow for the Christian West, in which a series of poems enacts an invasion by the Vodou Loas - or Haitian gods and goddesses - into the southern and most reactionary part of the United States. Hirschman imagines a similar invasion manifested by Vietnamese Mediums who follow the Dao Mau (the Worship of the Mother) religion. He strives to remind us that the war in Vietnam, although now history, was the major catastrophe of its time and must not be forgotten by future generations. ABOUT THE AUTHORJack Hirschman was born in 1933 in New York City and grew up in The Bronx. A copyboy with the Associated Press in New York, his first brush with fame came from a letter Ernest Hemingway wrote to him, published after Hemingway''s death as "A Letter to a Young Writer." He was a popular and innovative professor at UCLA in the 1970s, before he was fired for his anti-war activities. Hirschman is a member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America (LRNA), a founding member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade and the World Poetry Movement, the fourth emeritus poet of the city of San Francisco, and poet in residence with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

Illustrated poems to seduce and destroy. The Last American Valentine is a unique anthology of non-sappy love poetry and flash fiction.Poet Laureates, rock musicians, actors, famed prose writers and a few talented American barfly's have been handpicked, hunted down and crammed together with an artist the world has never met. Contributor's Include:MICHAEL MCCLUREJACK HIRSCHMANMINDY NETTIFEERICHARD SWIFTNATHAN WILLET (cold war kids)RICK LUPERTBRENDAN CONSTANTINEBEAU SIAAGNETA FALKMICHAEL ROBERTSMICHAEL C FORDBUDDY WAKEFIELDAMBER TAMBLYNJOHN GARDINERCRISTIN OKEEFE APTOWICZSHAPPY SEASHOLTZROGER BONAIR AGARDLYNNE PROCOPEVICTOR INFANTEDERRICK BROWNPraise"Poems of romantic power and humor...A gorgeously successful union."-OC Weekly

For Hirschman, the political is the most lyrical. This fine selection of his poetry embodies both.

Poems for social justice by San Francisco's poet laureate, including his autobiographical inaugural address.