Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

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Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

2018-02-20 Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence

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A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted, including a foreword by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly and an introduction by Colum McCann, published on the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, and Juan Fe

He lives in San Francisco. Colum McCann is the author of TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, and Thirteen Ways of Looking.Brian Clements is the author of A Book of Common Rituals and the editor of An Introduction to the Prose Poem. . He lives in Newtown, Connecticut, where his wife, a teacher, survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.Alexandra

He lives in Newtown, Connecticut, where his wife, a teacher, survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.Alexandra Teague is the author of Mortal Geography, winner of the California Book Award for Poetry, and The Wise and Foolish Builders. Alexandra is an associate professor of poetry at the University of Idaho.Dean Rader is the author of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry and the editor of 99 Poems for the 99 Percent: An Anthology of Poetry. He lives in San Francisco. . About the AuthorColum McCann is the author of TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, and Thirteen Ways of Looking.Brian Clements is the author of A Book of Common Rituals and the editor of An Introduction to the Prose Poem