توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب :
«این جلد به شدت بر بحران خشونت اسلحه در آمریکا تمرکز دارد، اشعاری از دهها شاعر شناختهشده ما از جمله بیلی کالینز، پاتریشیا اسمیت، ناتالی دیاز، اوشن وونگ، دانز اسمیت، برندا هیلمن، ناتاشا ترتیوی، رابرت را گرد هم آورده است. هاس، نائومی شیهاب نای، خوان فیلیپه هررا، مارک دوتی، ریتا داو، و یوسف کمونیاکاآ. هر شعر با پاسخی از یک فعال پیشگیری از خشونت با اسلحه، شخصیت سیاسی، بازمانده یا فرد نگران، از جمله جودی ویلیامز، برنده جایزه صلح نوبل، همراه است. سناتور کریستوفر مورفی، شانون واتس، بنیانگذار مادران خواستار اقدام، بازماندگان تیراندازی های کلمباین، سندی هوک، چارلستون امانوئل AME و ویرجینیا تک، و ساماریا رایس، مادر تامیر، و لوسی مک باث، مادر جردن دیویس. "-- صفحه 4 جلد.
فهرست مطالب :
Foreword / Conresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Captain Mark Kelly --
Introduction: The velocity of language / Colum McCann --
Jordan / Nick Arnold --
Response from Lucy McBath --
Morning shooting / Jimmy Santiago Baca --
Response from Antonius Wiriadajaja --
I could ask, but I think they use tweezers / Aziza Barnes --
Response from Judi Richardson --
When I think of Tamir Rice while driving / Reginald Dwayne Betts --
Response from Samaria Rice --
One pulse --
One poem / Richard Blanco --
Response from Ladd Everitt --
How my mother died / Tara Bray --
Response from Dennis Henigan --
Bullet points / Jericho Brown --
Response from Michael Skolnik --
22 / Brian Clements --
Response from Po Kim Murray --
Boy shooting at a statue / Billy Collins --
Response from Nicole Hockley --
Natural causes / Kyle Dargan --
Response from Daniel Webster --
Wednesday poem / Joel Dias-Porter --
Response from Kiki Leyba --
Catching copper / Natalie Diaz --
Response from Rev. Henry Brown --
In two seconds / Mark Doty --
Response from Pastor Michael McBride --
Meditation at fifty yards, moving target / Rita Dove --
Response from Marie Delus --
Gun poem / Cornelius Eady --
Response from Ronnie Mosley --
Heal the cracks in the bell of the world / Martin Espada --
Response from David and Francine Wheeler --
Aubade with lemon and sage / Tarfia Faizullah --
Response of Sharbari Ahmed --
A poem for pulse / Jameson Fitzpatrick --
Response from Kevin Hertzog --
My mother contemplating her gun / Nick Flynn --
Response from Ashlyn Melton --
Gunning for it / Rebecca Morgan Frank --
Response from Dr. William V. Begg III --
[II Gunshots] / Vanessa German --
Response from Camiella Williams --
Dancing / Robert Hass --
Response from Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams --
Poem by poem / Juan Felipe Herrera --
Response from Rev. Sharon Risher --
Throwing a life time / Bob Hicok --
Response from Colin Goddard --
The family sells the family gun / Brenda Hillman --
Response from Jennifer Mascia --
Those who cannot act / Jane Hirshfield --
Response from US Senator Chris Murphy, Connecticut --
Gatorland / Leanne Howe --
Response from Amanda Gailey --
Ferguson / Major Jackson --
Response from Amber Goodwin --
The talking day / Michael Klein --
Response from Monte Frank --
Shotguns / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Response from DeAndra Yates --
Instructions for stopping / Dana Levin --
Response from Kate Ranta --
The leash / Ada Limon --
Response from Caren Teves --
Kablooey is the sound you\'ll hear / Debra Marquart --
Response from Jacob and Darchel Mohler --
The gun joke / Jamaal May --
Response from Dan Gross --
Afraid / Jill Mcdonough --
Response from Kim Parker Russell --
Ballad (American, 21st Century) / Wayne Miller --
Response from Lee Keylock --
Gun control
a triptych / Carol Muske-Dukes --
Response from Donna Dees-Thomases --
In the dark / Jack Myers --
Response from Khary Penebaker --
To Jamyla Bolden of Ferguson, Missouri / Naomi Shihab Nye --
Response from Missouri State Rep. Stacey Newman --
Letting beginning with two lines by Czestaw Milosz / Matthew Olzmann --
Response from Shannon Watts --
[When a child hears gunshots] / Meghan Privitello --
Response from Abbey Clements --
Self-portrait in Charleston, Orlando / Dean Rader --
Response from Joe Quint --
Maggot therapy / Roger Reeves --
Response from Yvonne Crasso --
The first child martyr at Illinois Elementary / Liz Rosenberg --
Response from Patrica Maisch --
the bullet was the girl / Danez Smith --
Response from Rev. Michael L. Pfleger --
Undertaker / Patrica Smith --
Response from Pamela Bosley --
All the dead boys look like me / Christopher Soto --
Response from John Grauwiler --
Memory with handgun and tetherball / Tess Taylor --
Response from Renan Salgado --
Repeater / Alexandra Teague --
Response from Iran Nazario --
Articulation / Natasha Trethewey --
Response from Eddie Weingart --
Always & forever / Ocean Vuong --
Response from Clai Lasher-Sommers --
Something it\'s taken thirty years to write / Afaa Michael Weaver --
Response from Dr. Leana S. Wen --
Kalashnikov Candelabrum / Robert Wrigley --
Response from Jessica Pollack Mindich.
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
"Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis."--Page 4 of cover.