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New Poetry Collection from D.H. Melhem
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| 16 May 2010 at 4:17 PM |
For immediate Release
Syracuse University Press
D. H. Melhem
Art and Politics / Politics and Art
Paper $9.95 978-0-8156-0976-6
5 x 8, 80 pages
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2010/art-and-politics.html
“Her primary focus, her point of departure, is New York City , about which she has written with unsparing and humorous vision, in love and in sorrow, for decades. It is her unerring vision of the immediate that gives this New York poet a global voice.”
—Marilyn Hacker, author of Names: Poems
“Belying all of prior literary history, a currently fashionable critical dictum holds that any poetry engaging the real world is necessarily impure and unworthy of respect or admiration. D. H. Melhem’s powerful Art and Politics / Politics and Art kicks down the door of that comfy salon and lets in the fresh air of heroism, of racial equality, of courageous feminism, of social conscience, of pacifism.”
—Philip Appleman, author of New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996
“Especially now, when most of the world is suffering, this is the kind of poetry I am looking for. It is so rare—engaged, grappling with issues, and deeply human—in short, political.”
—Edward Field, author of After the Fall: Poems Old and New |
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