The Insanity of Empire
Subtitle: A Book of Poems Against the Iraq War
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Ally Pr
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 49
ISBN-13: 9780915408573
Subjects: Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Labor & Industrial Relations - General
Description: This poetry collection discusses the Iraq war and some of the ominous implications of that serious step taken by the Republican administration. The collection includes six poems from the author's book on the Vietnam War, as well as a new group of poems discussing the power of the greedy soul or 'the rapacious soul.' Another five poems are in the ghazal form, including 'Call and answer, ' one of the first poems written against the Iraq War.