Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Deborah Meadows
Pasadena, CA
Deborah Meadows has a book length collection of poetry due out from Green Integer Press to be preceded by a chap (from "The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick") from Tinfish Press.
This anti-war poem is from a long sequence that uses French novelist, Rabelais's Gargantua as a seed text. Of course, France, most famously, with other countries such as Mexico, Chile, Cameroon opposed the UN Resolution to invade Iraq. May we all buy more French wine and investigate how art, such as poetry may resist colluding with state power.
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Gordian to make by the hour, notably time-ected to perp-faire these anti-cyrillics affect or augment waxed nights.
Syllabic fumes confer predication upon lumps of continuous speech. Combed to praise, they may grow according to scallop-way or vector broken by dice.
Aristotle gave form munificence, Pollux went five-out with new inventions. An Englishman who veerily hands cause to the Ancients sundered Gymnasts who lift up a cuirassier saddle, carry male-coat to fleet horse
aire to high leap, table to rude point.
But these external movements, do they order or shroud tack held like a book set just above waterline without wetting it?
Roused shot tried our fore-ouse, took helm and hill. Why must victors pomp and mentors champion passing good? Hey, crepe stood profitable as personified death. Feet prayed: situation done, starred briefly.
