Present/Tense: Poets In The World [Paperback]

Mark Pawlak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2005

My aim in compiling this collection has been to find the best available work by living American poets that is, broadly speaking, political in nature. Readers will find many different moods and modes of expression on a variety of topics. --Mark Pawlak "We have always depended on the work of poets to speak more beautifully, more powerfully than anyone else, on behalf of peace and justice. PRESENT/TENSE is a wonderful collection of poetry that fulfills that promise. In its pages we find poets who move us profoundly and lift our spirits."--Howard Zinn

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The issues are here - from prisons to racism, from violence to poverty, from gay bashing to the dark side of capitalism - and they're here with poignancy and a great diversity and strength of voices."
--Georgie Donovan, Counterpoise

"This poetry for a new age tackles society's most divisive issues... featured poets, including Jack Agueros, Sherman Alexie, Jayne Cortez, and editor Mark Pawlak, have had work published by Hanging Loose Press." --KLIATT

"...a good introduction on how to respond to the world from a political perspective in poetry. For that reason alone it is an anthology worthy of study." --Robert Edwards, PEMMICAN

About the Author

Includes works by Jack Agueros, Sherman Alexie, Donna Brook, Hayan Charara, Jayne Cortez, Martin Espada, Ed Friedman, Joanna Fuhrman, Kimiko Hahn, Robert Hershon, Anselm Hollo, Joy Harjo, Hettie Jones, Dick Lourie, Ken Mikolowski, Harryette Mullen, D. Nurkse, Ron Overton, Maureen Owen, Mark Pawlak, Adrienne Rich, Ron Schreiber, Harvey Shapiro, M. L. Smoker, Quincy Troupe, Janine Pommy Vega, Chuck Wachtel, Bill Zavatsky

Product Details

• Paperback: 212 pages
• Publisher: Hanging Loose Press; First Edition edition (May 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931236399
• ISBN-13: 978-1931236393
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,098,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mark Pawlak is the author of six poetry collections and the editor of as many anthologies. His latest books are "Jefferson's New Age Salon: Mashups and Matchups" (poems, Cervena Barva Press 2010) and "When We Were Countries: Poems and Stories by Outstanding High School Writers," fourth in a series of anthologies of the "best" writing by teens (Hanging Loose Press, 2010). His work has been translated into German, Polish, and Spanish, and has appeared widely in English in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry, Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust, For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Anthology of Poetic Journals and in the literary magazines New American Writing, Mother Jones, Poetry South, The Saint Ann's Review, and The World, among many others. He has received awards from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and Pushcart Nomination. For the past 30 years Pawlak has been an editor of the Brooklyn-based Hanging Loose, the oldest independent literary journal and press in the country. He supports his poetry habit by teaching mathematics at UMass Boston, where he is Director of Academic Support Programs. He lives in Cambridge.