All That's Left
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
All That's Left
By (Author) Jack Hirschman
City Lights Books
City Lights Books
3rd October 2008
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
811.54
Physical Properties
Paperback
150
Width 127mm, Height 177mm, Spine 7mm
99g
Description
The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All Thats Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with Hirschmans autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his career as poet, translator, and agitator.
Included are several of Hirschmans 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.
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
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.
