Research Catalog

Title

Greatest hits : twelve years of compost magazine / edited by Kevin Gallagher and Margaret Bezucha ; preface by Rosanna Warren.

Publication

Brookline, MA : Zephyr Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gallagher, Kevin.
• Bezucha, Margaret.

Description

xvi, 326 pages; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Compost (Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.)

Alternative Title

• Compost, 12 years of art, literature & ideas
• There's no place on earth like the world

Subjects

• Poetry > Collections
• Arts
• Literature > Collections

Contents

Compost mortem / Kevin Gallagher and Margaret Bezucha -- Vietnam -- The sky in a bomb crater / Lam Thi My Da -- Truong son east, Truong son west / Pham Tien Duat -- [3 poems] / Nguyen Quang Thieu -- Question and answer / Huu Thinh -- Haiti -- The valleys' signposts - Haitian art and literature / Danielle Legros Georges and Patrick Sylvain -- The long walk home / Jean-Claude Martineau -- My broad back / Paul Laraque -- The bull at Nan Souvenance / Mariline Phipps -- If the pope knew / Felix Morisseau-Leroy -- To and from / Danielle Legros Georges -- Reversibility / Charlot Lucien -- Hoping for Lavalas / Patrick Sylvain -- China -- [3 poems] / Tzu-yeh -- Fragments of shadow / Chen Dong Dong -- City in hibernation / Meng Lang -- [2 poems] / Bei Dao -- [2 poems] / Bei Ling -- Ireland -- A nomad / Gregory O'donaghue -- [2 poems] / Eithne Strong -- Astronauts / John F. Deane -- Broken arrow / Colm Breathnach -- Goddess / Fred Johnston -- To "the last good poem." / Eavan Boland -- [2 poems] / Medbh McGuckian -- Old spice / Catherine Phil MacCarthy -- Zimbabwe -- New writing from Zimbabwe / Sue Standing -- [2 poems] / Albert Nyathi -- This soil / Emmanuel Sigauke -- The identity crisis / Stephen Alumenda -- Betrayal / Lindsay Pentolfc Aegerter -- Armenia -- From foremost to endangered / Diana Der-Hovanessian -- A handful of ash / Siamanto -- After a war / Aramais Sahagian -- Ars poetica / Arevshad Avakian -- Autobiography / Hamo Sahian -- Dusk / Maro Markarian -- Few / Barouyr Sevag -- Earth / Arevshad Avakian -- India -- Women poets from Calcutta / Carolyne Wright -- Bengali women writers / Carolyne Wright -- Truth is God / Kabita Sinha -- [3 poems] / Kabita Sinha -- Escalator / Rajlakshmi Devi -- Long-lived and blessed with sons / Vijaya Mukhopadhyay -- King / Mary Louise Sullivan -- Reflections / Arindam Banerji -- Reflections / Robert Pinsky -- The swam / Catherine A. Salmons -- The tulips dream / Cindy Schuster -- [5 poems] / Kevin Bowen -- Untitled / Michelle Joyner -- [2 poems] / Martha Collins -- Catechizing the dandelion / Jennifer Rose -- Uncles / Sam Cornish -- Uncles / Rosanna Warren -- [2 poems] / Diana Der-Hovanessian -- [3 poems] / Joseph DeRoche -- The good life / Sue Standing -- At the fruit stand / Doug Holder -- As timber in a shallow rain / J. Wright-Ryan -- Dreams of hands and metamorphoses / Judit Flora -- [6 poems] / Wayne Sullins -- The couple / Michael B. Zack -- Dear Marni / William Corbett -- Eddie and Juliet / Victor Howes -- Immigrant home movie, 1963 / Mariette Lippo -- Ed. Bullins alive! / Ed. Bullins -- Snickers / Ed. Bullins -- Marija Says / Jean Pedrick -- [3 poems] / Chs -- Whisky worms / Charles Hancock -- Puer / Theresa Iverson -- Red River crossing / Fred Marchant -- After wartime / Ben Mazer -- A murder, after Goya / Christopher Millis -- "Whatever the flesh suffers ..." / Jack Powers -- The business ethics of poets / Richard Moore -- How should one live? / Martha Nussbaum -- Psalm for my pilon / Jack Agueros -- Psalm for my pilon / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- From The lower east side / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- [2 poems] / Roberto Tinoco Duran -- [2 poems] / Diane Bonds -- [2 poems] / Sam Magavern -- Fishers of the morning / F. W. Rabey -- The poetry of things / Alan Dugan -- Oaf / Connie Deanovich -- Unfurl the snare / Ryan G. Van Cleave -- Abecedarian / Steve Ratiner -- Leavers / Virgil Suarez -- On James Laughlin / Rosmarie Waldrop -- [6 poems] / James Laughlin -- [9 poems] / Robert Daley -- There's nothing worse / Leo Romero -- Making Bola / Denise Duhamel -- An emergent light / Miriam Ventura -- Arabesques / Dionisio D. Martinez -- For Gloria, Mario, Mayra, and Juanin / Alan West -- From 1001 ... / Richard Kostelanetz -- If God was Chicano / Javier Lazo -- Rogelia Cruz / Marjorie Agosin -- The anthropomorphic cabinet / Juan Felipe Herrera -- The code / Margarita Luna Robles -- Abraham Lincoln / Russell Larkin -- Abraham Lincoln / Leroy Quintana -- [2 poems] / Leroy Quintana -- From Hearsay sonnets / Beth Anderson -- Cold fried fish and brown rice / Anastasios Kozaitis.

ISBN

0939010771 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm65174046
• SCSB-5232595

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries