[New-Poetry] Ryan Croken: Unembedded Poetry

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FOCUS | Ryan Croken: Unembedded Poetry
http://www.truthout.org/112908Y
Ryan Croken, Truthout: "On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, as our
political figures and talking heads wrangled over the best way to babysit the
cradle of civilization at the barrel of a gun, American poet and peace activist
David Smith-Ferri had a different idea: he would go to Iraq and ask the people
who lived there how they felt. 'I wanted to interview Iraqis,' he
writes, 'about the threat of war. Surely, I reasoned, it should matter to us
what people in Iraq think.' This presumption, startling in its seeming
innocence and radical common sense, underpins the poetic and humanitarian
mission of his book, 'Battlefield Without Borders: Iraq Poems.'"

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