12-10-08, 9:58 am
Seeds of Fire Edited by Jon Andersen Smokestack Books, 2008 'Seeds of Fire' the new, Jon Andersen edited anthology from Smokestack Books is the best collection of political poetry since Lowenfels' 'Poets of Today' (1965). The hefty compendium collects over 50 current U.S. poets, some famous, some, for the moment anyway, unknown. Of the many excellent poems and poets, I've chosen to excerpt the following four.