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Book

Bullets into bells : poets & citizens respond to gun violence

Call Number

  • 811 B936 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]

Physical Description

xxiv, 179 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis."--Page [4] of cover.

Contents

  • Foreword / Introduction: The velocity of language / Jordan / Response from Morning shooting / Response from I could ask, but I think they use tweezers / Response from When I think of Tamir Rice while driving / Response from One pulse
  • One poem / Response from How my mother died / Response from Bullet points / Response from 22 / Response from Boy shooting at a statue / Response from Natural causes / Response from Wednesday poem / Response from Catching copper / Response from In two seconds / Response from Meditation at fifty yards, moving target / Response from Gun poem / Response from Heal the cracks in the bell of the world / Response from Aubade with lemon and sage / Response of A poem for pulse / Response from My mother contemplating her gun / Response from Gunning for it / Response from Response from Response from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Poem by poem / Response from Throwing a life time / Bob Hicok
  • Response from The family sells the family gun / Response from Those who cannot act / Response from US Senator Gatorland / Response from Ferguson / Response from The talking day / Response from Shotguns / Response from Instructions for stopping / Response from The leash / Response from Kablooey is the sound you'll hear / Response from The gun joke / Response from Afraid / Response from Ballad (American, 21st Century) / Response from Gun control; a triptych / Response from In the dark / Response from To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri / Response from Missouri State Rep. Letting beginning with two lines by Czestaw Milosz / Response from [When a child hears gunshots] / Response from Self-portrait in Charleston, Orlando / Response from Maggot therapy / Response from The first child martyr at Illinois Elementary / Response from the bullet was the girl / Response from Undertaker / Response from All the dead boys look like me / Response from Memory with handgun and tetherball / Response from Renan Salgado
  • Repeater / Response from Articulation / Response from Always & forever / Response from Something it's taken thirty years to write / Response from Kalashnikov Candelabrum / Response from

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.