Article: Poetry With a Punch.(Book Review)

Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on Peace and War, edited by Kim Stafford; Milkweed Editions. The Poetry of Peace, edited by David Krieger; Capra Press. Dreaming Moorish, by Jim Perkinson; Weightless Language Press. The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn, by Jean Nordhaus; Milkweed Editions.

Yesterday I got a call from a friend I hadn't spoken with in more than a year. "I have to tell someone this," she said. "I just wrote a poem." It was her first ever, a tribute to Catholic prophet Phil Berrigan, who died in December. She read it to me over the phone; it was filled with the sounds of hammers clanging on the alloyed hearts of terror-fiddled nose ...

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