Political and Social Poetry

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Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness 4.38 avg rating — 621 ratings
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Exotic Neurotic
Exotic Neurotic 3.71 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Disenchanted and Disgruntled
Disenchanted and Disgruntled 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,753 ratings
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin 4.40 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Ecopoetry Anthology
The Ecopoetry Anthology 4.24 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Verse and Adverse
Verse and Adverse 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Cardboard Piano
Cardboard Piano 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Still to Mow
Still to Mow 3.95 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)
The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback) 4.34 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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Deniability
Deniability 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Ms Militancy
Ms Militancy 4.16 avg rating — 182 ratings
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2016 Political Poems
2016 Political Poems 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters 4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Chief Joseph Of The Nez Perce
Chief Joseph Of The Nez Perce 3.67 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast
Woody Notes, and Heat Sneaking up Fast 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home 4.43 avg rating — 6,275 ratings
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Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse 3.83 avg rating — 357 ratings
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The Light Around the Body
The Light Around the Body 3.89 avg rating — 206 ratings
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No entry for the new Sun: Translations from modern Marathi Dalit poetry
No entry for the new Sun: Translations from modern Marathi Dalit poetry 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Cold Pastoral: Poems
Cold Pastoral: Poems 4.03 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Angel of History
The Angel of History 4.08 avg rating — 720 ratings
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Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld Poems 1972-2006
Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld Poems 1972-2006 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series)
Waiting for the Light (Pitt Poetry Series) 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Stealing History
Stealing History 4.18 avg rating — 33 ratings
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What Narcissism Means to Me
What Narcissism Means to Me 4.08 avg rating — 1,894 ratings
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Build Yourself a Boat
Build Yourself a Boat 4.06 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures
Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty
Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty 4.08 avg rating — 849 ratings
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On Time: Poems 2005-2014
On Time: Poems 2005-2014 3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination
Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Poets Against the War
Poets Against the War 4.12 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Tom Paxton - Politics
Tom Paxton - Politics liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic 4.39 avg rating — 9,320 ratings
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D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology
D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics, and Madness of Ezra Pound 3.66 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Freeing of the Dust
The Freeing of the Dust 3.90 avg rating — 124 ratings
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100 Poets Against the War
100 Poets Against the War 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry
Appalachian Gateway: An Anthology of Contemporary Stories and Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War
Raising Our Voices: An Anthology of Oregon Poets Against the War 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)
Red Holler: Contemporary Appalachian Literature (Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) 3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Irony and Irrelevance
Irony and Irrelevance 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia
Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books)
Voices from the Mountains (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001 4.43 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Socialist & Labor Songs of the 1930s
Socialist & Labor Songs of the 1930s it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected 4.39 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast 3.94 avg rating — 544 ratings
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Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems 4.20 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
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Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 4.21 avg rating — 90 ratings
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For the Confederate Dead
For the Confederate Dead 4.06 avg rating — 130 ratings
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And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone
And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone 3.66 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Folksinger's Wordbook
Folksinger's Wordbook 4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Songs of Protest and Civil Rights
Songs of Protest and Civil Rights liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes
Songs of Work and Protest: 100 Favorite Songs of American Workers Complete with Music and Historical Notes 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Lyrics, 1961-2012
The Lyrics, 1961-2012
by: Bob Dylan
4.60 avg rating — 390 ratings
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Writings and Drawings
Writings and Drawings
by: Bob Dylan
4.26 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Blowin' in the Wind
Blowin' in the Wind
by: Bob Dylan
4.11 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Black Southern Voices: An Anthology
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse 4.26 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs)
Best-Loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of Faith (Dover Books On Music: Folk Songs) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Negro Slave Songs in the United States
Negro Slave Songs in the United States 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs 4.09 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Selected Poems 1855-1892
Selected Poems 1855-1892 4.27 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania
Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania 4.60 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians
Wishing Bone Cycle: Narrative Poems of the Swampy Cree Indians 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings
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The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts
The Book of Music and Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature
Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things
by: Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,246 ratings
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Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings
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No Nature: New and Selected Poems
No Nature: New and Selected Poems 4.20 avg rating — 862 ratings
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National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! 4.22 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Norton Book of Nature Writing
Norton Book of Nature Writing 4.03 avg rating — 194 ratings
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One-Handed Basket Weaving: Poems on the Theme of Work
One-Handed Basket Weaving: Poems on the Theme of Work 4.37 avg rating — 52 ratings
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I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923
I.W.W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent: A Facsimile Reprint of the Popular Nineteenth Edition 1923 4.49 avg rating — 47 ratings
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What Work Is: Poems
What Work Is: Poems 4.28 avg rating — 2,454 ratings
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Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens 4.28 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture
The Complete Lunch Box: The Life and Works of Deacon Lunch Book, a Cornucopia of Southern Culture 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class
Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class 4.35 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Pete Seeger: The Storm King: Stories, Narratives, Poems: Spoken Word Set to a World of Music
Pete Seeger: The Storm King: Stories, Narratives, Poems: Spoken Word Set to a World of Music 3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings
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PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK: WARTS AND ALL
PEGGY SEEGER SONGBOOK: WARTS AND ALL liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War
Soldier Songs and Home-Front Ballads of the Civil War really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present
Lines in Long Array: A Civil War Commemoration: Poems and Photographs, Past and Present 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The War is Over
The War is Over
by: Phil Ochs
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Circle of Helmets: Poetry and Letters of the Vietnam War
Circle of Helmets: Poetry and Letters of the Vietnam War 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees
Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: New & Selected Poems 1986-2009
Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: New & Selected Poems 1986-2009 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader 4.10 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe
Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings
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War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad 4.45 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey
Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey 3.64 avg rating — 282 ratings
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World War 3 Illustrated: 1979-2014
World War 3 Illustrated: 1979-2014 4.13 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics
Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics 3.95 avg rating — 635 ratings
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Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew
Some Desperate Glory: The First World War the Poets Knew 3.78 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless
Can You See Me? Images of Atlanta's Homeless really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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After The Lost War: A Narrative
After The Lost War: A Narrative 4.15 avg rating — 109 ratings
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