Section

Poetry

New poems, sequences, and translations. Work that attends to form as a political and ethical question.

America earlier voice

Claude McKay

A sonnet of bitter love for America — strength against hate, and wonders sinking in the sand of time.

  • poetry
  • america
  • sonnet
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Sons of Belial earlier voice

Lola Ridge

Written in 1920. A poem of the mob across history — from Gilead to Alexandria, from Rosa Luxemburg to Missouri.

  • poetry
  • history
  • violence
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Four Poems earlier voice

Subramania Bharati

Four poems: the collapse of Kali Yuga, New India, the liberation of women, and praise of the Goddess of Learning.

  • poetry
  • india
  • liberation
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