Misrepresented People
Subtitle: Poetic Responses to Trump's America
Publisher: NYQ Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781630450519
Description: The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses To Trump's America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time when large swaths of the nation, and of the world, have succumbed to a reality television ontology, the poems collected in this volume offer the terra firma of imaginative empathy only available to us through poetry. This anthology contains work from a variety of aesthetic stances, from poets whose personal backgrounds reflect the vibrant multiplicity of our democratic vistas at their most resplendent. These voices counter alternative facts and fake news with the earned communion and the restorative utterance of the lyric and of the narrative. NYQ Books will donate proceeds from this anthology to The National Immigration Law Center.
Table of contents: label: xix
title: Introduction; title: Hanif Abdurraqib; label: 1
title: It’s Just That I’m Not Really Into Politics; label: 2
title: & who, this time; label: 3
title: I Don’t Know Any Longer Why the Flags Are at Half-Staff; title: Kaveh Akbar; label: 5
title: Unburnable the Cold is Flooding Our Lives; label: 7
title: Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats; title: María Isabel Alvarez; label: 9
title: In America; title: Eloisa Amezcua; label: 10
title: When Mexico Sends Its People, They’re Not Sending Their Best; label: 12
title: Elegy; title: Nin Andrews; label: 14
title: Why I Am Not an Orgasm; title: William Archila; label: 16
title: This Is for Henry; label: 19
title: The Line; title: Fatimah Asghar; label: 20
title: If They Should Come for Us; title: Chaun Ballard; label: 22
title: Pantoum on the Presidential Election (from Saudi Arabia); label: 24
title: Pantoum; label: 25
title: The Necessity of Poetry; title: Zeina Hashem Beck; label: 27
title: the Days don’t stop; title: Bruce Bennett; label: 28
title: America in 2015; label: 29
title: The Lake Isle of Anywhere; title: Rosebud Ben-Oni; label: 30
title: And All the Songs We Are Meant To Be; title: Brian Brodeur; label: 32
title: Self-Portrait with Alternative Facts; label: 33
title: Lullaby for an Autocrat; label: 34
title: Transcontinental; title: Joel Brouwer; label: 35
title: Some Varieties of Political Activism; title: Nickole Brown; label: 37
title: Inauguration Day, 2017; label: 38
title: Trump’s Tic Tacs; title: Tina Cane; label: 40
title: Avocado a la Ionesco; title: Cortney Lamar Charleston; label: 41
title: Feeling Fucked Up; label: 43
title: Chillary Clinton Said “We Have to Bring Them to Heal”; label: 45
title: Postmortem: 11/9/16; title: Jim Daniels; label: 46
title: Raking, Pittsburgh; label: 48
title: Half-Mast; title: Kyle Dargan; label: 49
title: Americana; label: 51
title: Mountebank; title: Danielle Cadena Deulen; label: 52
title: American Curse; label: 53
title: On the Uncertainty of Our Judgment; label: 55
title: We Are Bored; title: Natalie Diaz; label: 58
title: Post-Colonial Love Poem; title: Dante Di Stefano; label: 60
title: National Anthem with Elegy and Talon; title: celeste doaks; label: 61
title: American Herstory; label: 62
title: How to Survive When Militants Knock at Your Door; title: Martín Espada; label: 63
title: How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way; label: 64
title: Sleeping on the Bus; label: 66
title: Isabel’s Corrido; label: 68
title: Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits; label: 69
title: Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100; title: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza; label: 71
title: The Moon Is Trans; label: 72
title: [It is quiet in the morning.]; label: 73
title: [The woman is about hair]; title: Blas Falconer; label: 74
title: The Promised Land; title: Kate Falvey; label: 75
title: The Line; title: Brian Fanelli; label: 78
title: Post-Election; label: 79
title: At the Corner Bar, Months Before an Election; label: 80
title: Instructions for the Day After; title: Ariel Francisco; label: 81
title: American Night, American Morning; title: Christine Gelineau; label: 83
title: Welcome: for a Grandson Born to Unsettling Times; title: Maria Mazziotti Gillan; label: 85
title: The Day After the Election; title: Jennifer Givhan; label: 87
title: The Polar Bear; label: 88
title: The Glance; label: 89
title: Half Mexican; title: Tony Gloeggler; label: 92
title: On the Seventh Day; title: Ruth Goring; label: 94
title: America, if; title: Sonia Greenfield; label: 95
title: Alternate Facts; title: George Guida; label: 96
title: Because I’m from His Island; title: Luke Hankins; label: 99
title: The Answer; title: David Hernandez; label: 100
title: All-American; label: 102
title: These Are Brave Days; title: Luther Hughes; label: 103
title: Not Splendor; label: 109
title: Self-Portrait as Crow; title: Kenan Ince; label: 110
title: Sickle; label: 111
title: Mollusks; label: 112
title: Resolution; label: 115
title: Trickle-Down Theory; label: 117
title: Ode to United Fruit; title: Maria Melendez Kelson; label: 118
title: El Villain; title: Ruth Ellen Kocher; label: 119
title: Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen; title: Dana Levin; label: 120
title: Winning; title: Timothy Liu; label: 121
title: Protest Song; title: Denise Low; label: 126
title: Andrew Jackson, I See You; title: George Ella Lyon; label: 127
title: This Just In from Rancho Politico; title: J. Michael Martinez; label: 129
title: The Mexican War Photo Postcard Company; label: 130
title: “Triple Execution in Mexico”; label: 133
title: “Execution in Mexico”; label: 134
title: “Yncineracion de Cadaveres en Balbuena”; label: 135
title: “Executing Bandits in Mexico”; label: 136
title: “The Executioner’s Palisade”; title: Shane McCrae; label: 137
title: Everything I Know About Blackness I Learned from Donald Trump; title: Sjohnna McCray; label: 138
title: Portrait of My Father as a Young Black Man; label: 139
title: Burning Down Suburbia; label: 140
title: Price Check; title: Erika Meitner; label: 141
title: I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become; title: Rajiv Mohabir; label: 142
title: Inaugural Poem; title: Faisal Mohyuddin; label: 144
title: Song of Myself as a Tomorrow; title: Kamilah Aisha Moon; label: 146
title: Notes on a Mass Stranding; label: 148
title: A Superwoman Chooses Another Way to Fly; label: 149
title: What James Craig Anderson’s Ghost Might Say (July 26, 2011); title: Abby E. Murray; label: 150
title: A Story for Our Daughters; label: 152
title: Poem for My Daughter Before the March; label: 153
title: My Daughter Asked for This; title: Susan Nguyen; label: 155
title: Good Girls; label: 157
title: A list of directives:; label: 158
title: Nguyen: Also Known As; title: Matthew Olzmann; label: 159
title: Despite the Kicking of Small Animals; title: Annette Oxindine; label: 160
title: Now That Spring Is Coming, More Decrees; title: Gregory Pardlo; label: 161
title: For Which it Stands; label: 163
title: Written By Himself; title: Craig Santos Perez; label: 164
title: Love Poems in the Time of Climate Change: Sonnet XVII; label: 165
title: Love Poems in the Time of Climate Change: Sonnet XII; label: 166
title: Thanksgiving in the Anthropocene, 2015; label: 168
title: Masturbation Poem in a Time of Climate Change; title: Xandria Phillips; label: 170
title: –Bigly–; label: 171
title: An Elegy for the Living and Breathing; label: 172
title: Social Death: Split-Screen, Rewind; label: 173
title: Social Death: Split-Screen, Fast Forward; label: 174
title: She Makes Me Notice; title: Kevin Prufer; label: 175
title: National Anthem; label: 176
title: In a Beautiful Country; label: 177
title: The Art of Fiction; label: 182
title: The Translator; label: 185
title: The Mexicans; label: 189
title: Cruelties; title: Dean Rader; label: 190
title: America I Do Not Call Your Name Without Hope; title: Stella Vinitchi Radulescu; label: 191
title: like history a poem; title: Julian Randall; label: 193
title: The Search for Frank Ocean or a Brief History of Disappearing; title: Camille Rankine; label: 196
title: Aubade; title: Alexandra Lytton Regalado; label: 197
title: La Mano; title: Alberto Ríos; label: 198
title: We Are of a Tribe; label: 199
title: The Border: A Double Sonnet; label: 200
title: Border Lines; title: Alison C. Rollins; label: 201
title: The Beastangel; label: 203
title: Why Is We Americans; title: Liz Rosenberg; label: 205
title: To the President Elect; label: 206
title: The Real True President Asleep; title: Nicole Santalucia; label: 207
title: Thumping in Central Pennsylvania; label: 208
title: Supermarket Blowout; label: 209
title: After the Voting Polls Closed; title: sam sax; label: 210
title: Doctrine; title: Lauren Marie Schmidt; label: 212
title: In Defense of Poetry; label: 213
title: Welfare Mothers; label: 214
title: Unto Others; label: 216
title: The Fourth of July; label: 219
title: The Social Worker’s Advice; title: Raena Shirali; label: 221
title: Dare I Write It; label: 222
title: Between Here & Predictable Characters; title: Scherezade Siobhan; label: 223
title: second generation; title: Clint Smith; label: 224
title: Pangaea; title: Maggie Smith; label: 225
title: The Parable of the Bear; label: 226
title: What I Carried; title: Patricia Smith; label: 228
title: Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean; label: 230
title: that’s my; title: Christian Teresi; label: 231
title: Nina Simone Explains Delusions to John Roberts; label: 232
title: Nobody Explains Political Myopia to the Unrepentant Voter; label: 233
title: Etymology of the Ancient City; title: Leah Tieger; label: 235
title: Electorate; title: Vincent Toro; label: 236
title: The Savages; title: Leah Umansky; label: 237
title: Sonnet II; label: 238
title: this is a poem about survival; label: 239
title: I Leave; title: Emily Vogel; label: 241
title: Orphan Leaves; label: 242
title: The New Elected “God”; title: Joe Weil; label: 243
title: Poem in Which I Shit on Unity; label: 244
title: Red Land (A Satire in the Old Irish Poetic Sense); label: 245
title: Early Winter (The Day After); title: Jameka Williams; label: 246
title: [my heroes lie in boxes]; label: 247
title: Thoughts on a Birthday Party; label: 248
title: For the Love of God; label: 249
title: Black, or I Sit on My Front Porch in the Projects Waiting for God; title: Phillip B. Williams; label: 250
title: from Interruptive; title: Jane Wong; label: 259
title: The Act of Killing; label: 260
title: Spoiled; title: Javier Zamora; label: 261
title: Looking at a Coyote; label: 262
title: Second Attempt Crossing; label: 265
title: Acknowledgments; label: 271
title: Contributor Notes