Poems for the Nation: A Collection of Contemporary Political Poems Book

Acknowledgments	11
Introduction by Eliot Katz and Bob Rosenthal	1
I. Poems for the Nation
Antler Follow Orders	7
Barbara Barg Temporary America	10
William Burroughs Remember Control	12
Andy Clausen More Same Old	14
Wanda Coleman Welfare Quean	15
Jack Collom To the tune of "Amazing
Grace"	17
David Cope Sirens & flashing lights stop	18
Jayne Cortez Cultural Operations	19
Diane di Prima Good Clean Fun	21
Eric Drooker The Ballad of Loisaida	24
Cliff Fyman Vice, Advice & Eccentricities	26
Aimée Grunberger Here In The Western World	28
Nanao Sakaki Let's Eat Stars	30
Lawrence Ferlinghetti From Work-in-Progress	31
Eliot Katz Dinosaur Love	33
Tuli Kupferberg Paint It Red (& Black)	34
Sharon Mesmer Bad Day on Avenue A	37
Daniel Moore From A Visit to the Graves of the
Bosnian Muslims	38
Eileen Myles From Mr. Twenty	41
Carl Rakosi Down to Earth Suite	43
Nanao Sakaki In Honor of the Persian Gulf War	46
Janine Pommy Vega The Draft	47
Anne Waldman BornAgain Blues	49
Peter Lamborn Wilson The Sacred and Profane History of
Money	51
Allen Ginsberg New Democracy Wish List	53
Allen Ginsberg as Poet Activist
Allen Ginsberg Television Address for 1972
Republican National Convention	59
Eugene Brooks Poem for Allen Ginsberg	61
Eileen Myles A Speech about Allen	63
Edward Sanders Remarks Written for the
Dedication of a Dogwood Tree	66
Amiri Baraka To Allen: Hail & Farewell	69