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Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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The Secret of Divine Civilization
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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
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The Bloody Tide: Poems about Politics and Power
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Poems and Translations
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Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001
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Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse (Dumpty, #1)
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The New Science of Giambattista Vico
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The Angel of History
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Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)
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Collection of Thomas Jefferson’s Letters
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Tom Paxton - Politics
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Before the Vote After
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The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
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The Declaration of Independence
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William Blake: The Politics of Vision
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Notes on the State of Virginia (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
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A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920
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Ben Forkner (Editor)
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New Testament: 1526 Tyndale Bible, Original Spelling Edition
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I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
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Cynthia Grady (Goodreads Author)
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Negro Slave Songs in the United States
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Don Quixote
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Songs of Protest and Civil Rights
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Jerry Silverman (Compiler)
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Journey to the End of the Night
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Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War
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Irwin Silber (Editor)
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Death on the Installment Plan
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Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
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David C. Ward (Editor)
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History and Utopia
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
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The Iliad
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
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Julian Bond (Foreword)
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The Odyssey of Homer
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The War is Over
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Collected Fictions
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Circle of Helmets: Poetry and Letters of the Vietnam War
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Rick St. John (Goodreads Author)
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Selected Poems
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Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees
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Yusef Komunyakaa (Foreword)
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The Public Burning
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Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: New & Selected Poems 1986-2009
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Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 1: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude
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Jerome Rothenberg (Editor)
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Chief Joseph Of The Nez Perce
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Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play
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PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK: WARTS AND ALL
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
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Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
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Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics
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Chris Duffy (Editor)
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Call Me Ishmael
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After The Lost War: A Narrative
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The Pound Era
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Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
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J R
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War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
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The Recognitions
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Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
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A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme
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Rhymes for the Irreverent
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His Hands Were Gentle: Selected Lyrics of Víctor Jara
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
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Philip Cushway (Editor & Compiler)
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Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes
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Not My President, The Anthology of Dissent
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Josh Gaines (Editor)
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Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry
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5 voters ·
list created April 9th, 2016
by Ak Rockefeller (votes) .
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