num_pages: 93
description: This vital collection of work by Texas poets and artists features moving and challenging responses to September 11, 2001. Affirming Flame presents the voices and visions of people making art who did not want to make war. These are prayers and other communications with the divine, eulogies, nightmare snapshots, love poems, lyrical manifestos, bulletins telling the news that the news did not tell. This book is a historical document and a record of the persistent human need for poetry in times of grief, healing and transformation. It is a collection of creative resistance and an unlikely anthology of hope.
title: Affirming Flame: Progressive Texas Poets in the Aftermath of September 11th
titlecomplete: Affirming Flame: Progressive Texas Poets in the Aftermath of September 11th
publisher: Evelyn Street Press