All That's Left (San Francisco Poet Laureate Series) - Softcover

Hirschman, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931404089 ISBN 13: 9781931404082

Publisher: City Lights Foundation Books, 2008

Synopsis

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.

Included are several of Hirschman’s earlier poems, marking successive stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy, paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Hirschman (b. December 13, 1933, in New York, NY) is a poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and is the city's present poet laureate. Hirschman translates nine languages and edited the Artuad Anthology.

Review:

"Hirschman is tender but tough, with a steel fist in his velvet glove." - San Francisco Chronicle "What this poet brings to us, beyond ideology, is the simple truth that we already know and so immediately recognize: we have to stop hating each other, killing each other, raping each other, and start loving each other." - Poet News

About this edition

• Publisher: City Lights Foundation Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1931404089
• ISBN 13: 9781931404082
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150