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Product Description: Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Sénac (1926–1973) was originally published when he was forty-one. Sénac represented the hope of the new generation of Algerians who were celebrating their independence from France after 130 years of colonialism, and in the tradition of René Char and the early Albert Camus, he portrayed an Algeria whose land and people would finally sing with their own voice...read more

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9781611861990, titled "Citizens of Beauty: Poems of Jean Sénac" | Michigan State Univ Pr, April 1, 2016, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Now available in English for the first time, translated by the poet Jack Hirschman, this beautiful collection of poems by the Algerian poet Jean Sénac (1926–1973) was originally published when he was forty-one.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781517596507 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 14, 2015, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This is the second annual volume of an anthology and cultural festival in San Francisco.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781587902703 | Regent Pr, May 15, 2015, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The Viet Arcane is a poetic vision of the Viet Nam War written in the early 1970's.

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9781502304520 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 2, 2014, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Over 200 people submitted their work to this city-wide poetry contest and reading series, which collects poetry from each of San Francisco’s 11 districts. Sponsored by Friends of the SFPL and the San Francisco Public Library, poets were selected by former San Francisco Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman...read more

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9781482331295 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 13, 2013, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Over 200 people submitted their work to this city-wide poetry contest and reading series, which collects poetry from each of San Francisco’s 11 districts.

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Personal reflections and intimate thoughts, incorporating her experiences as a young woman, actor, and celebrity, are compiled in this collection of poems by the teen actress of 'Joan of Arcadia' for young adult readers.

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9781416902591 | Simon & Schuster, August 23, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents over thirty poems on relationships, loss, and self-discovery by the teen actress from 'Joan of Arcadia.

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By Jack Hirschman (editor)

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9780872865075 | City Lights Books, August 17, 2010, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: 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, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator...read more

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9781931404082 | City Lights Foundation, April 1, 2008, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: Perhaps Crowe's most mature and interesting collection to date. Drawing on all his lyric abilities and world travels to give us a slightly surreal look into the essences of life in the late 20th century.
By Thomas Rain Crowe and Jack Hirschman (introduced by)

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9781599480824 | New Native Pr, September 1, 2007, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Perhaps Crowe's most mature and interesting collection to date.

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Product Description: Ismaël Aït Djafer's Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah is an underground classic on French oppression in Algeria. On October 20, 1949, in the city of Algiers, Khouni Ahmed, a tubercular beggar is walking along Rue Franklin Roosevelt...read more

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9781880684962 | Bilingual edition (Curbstone Pr, May 1, 2004), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Ismaël Aït Djafer's Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah is an underground classic on French oppression in Algeria.

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Product Description: Art on the Line is a collection of essays by writers and artists speaking about where their social commitment and their art intersect. These essays illuminate the aesthetics of "engaged art," and include work by artists from Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jack Hirschman (editor)

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9781880684771 | Curbstone Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Art on the Line is a collection of essays by writers and artists speaking about where their social commitment and their art intersect.

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Product Description: In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems. Kabbalist, populist, and communist, Hirschman has published over sixty books of his own poetry, and this representative selection is a cross-section of his poetic output, spanning many years and mutations...read more

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9780872864009 | City Lights Books, August 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the activist verse of this poetic warrior, always committed, the actual world is never out of mind, even in his most intimate poems.

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Product Description: Open Gate is the first bilingual volume of Haitian Creole poetry published in English. Seven years in the making, this anthology is the result of the dedication of its editors and translators, Paul Laraque, Jack Hirschman and the Haitian poet Boadiba, as well as Max Manigat, one of the first teachers of Creole on the university level who was an invaluable advisor...read more
By Boadiba (editor), Jack Hirschman (editor) and Paul Laraque (editor)

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9781880684757 | Curbstone Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Open Gate is the first bilingual volume of Haitian Creole poetry published in English.

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9781892295279 | Green Integer Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $12.95
9781557133106 | Sun & Moon Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $14.95

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9781880684733, titled "500,000 Azaleas: The Selected Poems of Efra'n Huerta" | Curbstone Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Ferruccio Brugnaro was born in Mestre, Italy in 1936. He worked for more than 30 years - most of his adult life - in the giant complex of chemical factories in the Porto Marghera district of Venice. By turns tender, loving, angry, satiric, these are passionate poems that grab you by the collar by Italy's best-known working-class poet - skillfully crafted, clear, and filled with powerful images...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781880684528 | 1 edition (Curbstone Pr, February 1, 1998), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Ferruccio Brugnaro was born in Mestre, Italy in 1936.

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Product Description: Book by Hirschman, Jack

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9780963236340 | Azul Editions, August 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Book by Hirschman, Jack

By Jack Hirschman (trans) and Ambar Past

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9780942996197 | Post Apollo Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $7.00

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Poems deal with love, street life, hunger, homelessness, censorship, and politics

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9781880684009 | Curbstone Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with love, street life, hunger, homelessness, censorship, and politics

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9781879342019 | Small Pr Distribution, June 1, 1991, cover price $4.50

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Product Description: Book by Hirschman, Jack

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9780915306732 | Curbstone Pr, November 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Book by Hirschman, Jack

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9780910697026 | Ruddy Duck Pr, January 1, 1985, cover price $3.00

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