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Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun… door Brian Clements
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CarrieWuj | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 24, 2020 | Deze bespreking was geschreven voorLibraryThing lid Weggevers.
This collection of poems on gun violence includes poem interpretation and commentary meant to make the case for gun control in America. While not everyone will agree with the premises presented, the book provides another avenue to open discussion on what drives the want for control or no control of weapons.I was randomly chosen to receive this book. I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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bemislibrary | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 12, 2018 | A powerful collection in call-and-response format (a poem is followed by a response). Strongly anti-violence and heavily - but not completely - anti-gun. Many voices.
Quotes
Introduction, Colum McCann
Poetry calls out for us to be inclusive. (xx)
We are forced, in literature, to make the empathetic leap into the realm of someone else. (xxi)
"Morning Shooting" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
...life hits black ice and spins out sometimes,
I tell myself, but that doesn't mean we're lost,
doesn't mean the spinning will never end....
...the hour makes its rounds like a jailer...
"Bullet Points" by Jericho Brown
I promise that if you hear
Of me dead anywhere near
A cop, then that cop killed me.
"In Two Seconds" by Mark Doty (for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014)
the boy's face
climbed back down the twelve-year tunnel
of its becoming, a charcoal sunflower
swallowing itself. Who has eyes to see,
or ears to hear? If you could see
what happens fastest, unmaking,
the human irreplaceable, a star
falling into complete gravitational
darkness from all points of itself, all this:
the held loved body into which entered
milk and music, honeying the cells of him...
...when behind every tributary
poured into him comes rushing backward
all he hasn't been yet.
"[11 Gunshots]" by Vanessa German
...no one knows the language of these mornings the way that we do. how do you walk the child to the bus stop. who will call the fourth grade teacher. to tell them. listen. today. _____ is going to be different. may. need. more. ____. or. ____. please. accommodate this trauma. with. more. love and deep listening.
We must challenge every politician who thinks it's easier to ask an elementary school teacher to stand up to a gunman with an AR-15 than it is to ask themselves to stand up to a gun lobbyist with a checkbook. -Colin Goddard, VA Tech survivor, response to "Throwing A Life Line"
Perhaps the real question is not why are our children getting killed, but why are we standing by watching? -Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, response to "the bullet was a girl"
Activism is what love looks like in public. -John Grauwiler, response to "All the Dead Boys Look Like Me"
Scientific studies show that violence spreads from person to person, just like other communicable diseases. Just like other diseases, violence has a treatment and a cure. And it can be prevented, using the same public health approaches we take to other diseases...
Taking a public health approach to violence is how we can ensure that where our children live no longer determines whether they live.
-Leana S. Wen, response to "Something It's Taken Thirty Years to Write"
Quotes
Introduction, Colum McCann
Poetry calls out for us to be inclusive. (xx)
We are forced, in literature, to make the empathetic leap into the realm of someone else. (xxi)
"Morning Shooting" by Jimmy Santiago Baca
...life hits black ice and spins out sometimes,
I tell myself, but that doesn't mean we're lost,
doesn't mean the spinning will never end....
...the hour makes its rounds like a jailer...
"Bullet Points" by Jericho Brown
I promise that if you hear
Of me dead anywhere near
A cop, then that cop killed me.
"In Two Seconds" by Mark Doty (for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014)
the boy's face
climbed back down the twelve-year tunnel
of its becoming, a charcoal sunflower
swallowing itself. Who has eyes to see,
or ears to hear? If you could see
what happens fastest, unmaking,
the human irreplaceable, a star
falling into complete gravitational
darkness from all points of itself, all this:
the held loved body into which entered
milk and music, honeying the cells of him...
...when behind every tributary
poured into him comes rushing backward
all he hasn't been yet.
"[11 Gunshots]" by Vanessa German
...no one knows the language of these mornings the way that we do. how do you walk the child to the bus stop. who will call the fourth grade teacher. to tell them. listen. today. _____ is going to be different. may. need. more. ____. or. ____. please. accommodate this trauma. with. more. love and deep listening.
We must challenge every politician who thinks it's easier to ask an elementary school teacher to stand up to a gunman with an AR-15 than it is to ask themselves to stand up to a gun lobbyist with a checkbook. -Colin Goddard, VA Tech survivor, response to "Throwing A Life Line"
Perhaps the real question is not why are our children getting killed, but why are we standing by watching? -Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, response to "the bullet was a girl"
Activism is what love looks like in public. -John Grauwiler, response to "All the Dead Boys Look Like Me"
Scientific studies show that violence spreads from person to person, just like other communicable diseases. Just like other diseases, violence has a treatment and a cure. And it can be prevented, using the same public health approaches we take to other diseases...
Taking a public health approach to violence is how we can ensure that where our children live no longer determines whether they live.
-Leana S. Wen, response to "Something It's Taken Thirty Years to Write"
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