April 13, 2010: On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam, Hayden Carruth
On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam
Hayden Carruth
Well I have and in fact
more than one and I’ll
tell you this too
I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against
Korea and another
against the one
I was in
and I don’t remember
how many against
the three
when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan County
and not one
breath was restored
to one
shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not
one
but death went on and on
never looking aside
except now and then
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing.
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2009: The Bear-Boy of Lithuania, Amy Gerstler
2008: Today’s News, David Tucker
2007: All There is to Know About Adolph Eichmann, Leonard Cohen
2006: Gamin, Frank O’Hara
2006: [this is what you love: more people. you remember], D.A. Powell
