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Poets
for Haiti : an anthology of poetry and art / ed. by Kim
Triedman ; preface by Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl. - Vineland
(N.J.) : Yileen press, 2010. - 56 p. :
ill. ;
23 cm.
ISBN
978-0-615-39301-8
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Don't
cry, Georgina
It's
late …
I
hear a little bird singing
Very
softly behind the house …
☐ Cauvin
L. Paul, Georgina,
p. 9 |
KIM TRIEDMAN :
(…)
On
February 23, 2010 — six weeks after the city of
Port-au-Prince was brought to its knees by one of the most destructive
earthquakes on record — 18 remarkable writers joined
together on the Harvard University campus and demonstrated just what
poetry could achieve. (…)
The poets
assembled for the
reading represented a remarkable and diverse group. Given the time
imperative it became a very democratic and almost incidental kind of
assemblage, which was one of the things I most appreciated about the
experience. Everyone owned the evening : the poet laureate
shared
the stage with the high school senior ; the university
professors
introduced the workaday poets ; the Haitian-born writers were
there to speak for themselves. There was no grandstanding. Poets were
introduced by name only. People were there to do something as sometimes
only a group can — to make themselves heard.
As we were
organizing this event, I keep thinking back to a children's book I used
to read to my daughters called Miss
Rumphius about
a little girl named Alice. Alice's grandfather was a retired sea
captain living out his old age on the coast of Maine. He tells her
about all the wonderful places he has seen on his journeys. When Alice
announces that she, too, will travel the world and then find a place by
the sea, he replies : « That is all very
well, little
Alice, but you must also find a way to make the world more
beautiful ».
I often
think of that line, even after
so many years. It's something I take very personally
— the
imperative, and the privilege. On February 23rd,
poets of the greater Boston community came together to read some
breathtaking poetry, to a huge audience that had assembled to support a
stunning and critically important cause. Like little Alice, who grew
old scattering lupine seeds over the hillside of Maine, we had all
found a small way, that night, to make the world more beautiful.
(…)
☐ Introduction, pp. I-II
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Autour
de l'université d'Harvard, un groupe de poètes
s'est
réuni quelques semaines après le tremblement de
terre du
12 janvier 2010 pour dire la peine et l'espoir, et pour tenter de
frayer par leurs mots un chemin vers un monde meilleur
— to
make the world more beautiful.
Le recueil publié par Yileen
press
prolonge l'initiative. Aux textes lus pour l'occasion répond
un
choix d'illustrations qui ouvrent sur l'imaginaire haïtien
(œuvres de Pascale Monnin, Frantz Zephirin, Vladimir Cybil
Charlier et André Juste, Paul Gardère, Edouard
Duval-Carrié, Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, Rejin
Leys).
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Introduction, Kim
Triedman
Preface,
Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl
- Intersection, Danielle
Legros Georges
- Port-au-Prince, Afaa
Michael Weaver
- Life was easier as a square, Kim
Triedman
- Foundation, Daniel
Tobin
- Georgina, Cauvin
L. Paul
- Poem : To water, Barbara
Helfgott Hyett
- Ports of sorrow, Patrick
Sylvain
- Maroon, Danielle
Legros Georges
- Homecoming, Daniel
Tobin
- Anything warm, Wendy
Mnookin
- What takes place takes place
upon it, Nadia Herman Colburn
- The girl, Barbara
Helfgott Hyett
- Earthquake, Marilène
Phipps-Kettlewell
- Track 5 : Summertime, Jericho
Brown
- God's on the sidewalk hugging his knees, Wendy Mnookin
- Boulevard Jean Jacques
Dessalines, Patrick Sylvain
- Walking an old woman into the
sea, Frannie Lindsay
- After a stroke, my mother
addresses children in a photograph of a sidewalk in Port-au-Prince, Tom
Daley
- Reflector, Fabienne
M.G. Casseus-Hilarion
- cruelty, Lucille
Clifton
- After, Rosanna
Warren
- I'm writing a poem, Togiram
(Emile Célestin-Mégie)
- A place at the table, Fred
Marchant
- Young apple tree, December, Gail
Mazur
- Love song, Nadia
Herman Colburn
- Ginza samba, Robert
Pinsky
- Toil, Kim Triedman
- Lucky 4 A.M., Kim
Stafford
- Fundament, Christina
Davis
- This evening, I will not cry for
my dead, Jean-Dany Joachim
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| mise-à-jour : 8
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