Present Tense: Poets in the World Book

	Preface : "in California during the Gulf War"	9
	Introduction	11
	Psalm for the next millennium	17
	Psalm for distribution	19
	Psalm for Amadou Diallo	20
	Psalm for the damnation of Pig Pino : Oink Ochet who unlike his victims will never die nor disappear, because he was never human	21
	One stick song	22
	Sonnet : tattoo tears	28
	Capital punishment	32
	The exaggeration of despair	37
	After the trial of Hamlet, Chicago	39
	Poem wrapped around quotation from Samantha Power	42
	April 27, 1994	43
	Message to Mary Ferrari in Jo'burg	45
	Why I am a whore	47
	Pink diapers	48
	Thinking American	49
	Hamza Aweiwi, a shoemaker in Hebron	50
	Here it is	52
	More than we dared	54
	What's your take	56
	Global inequalities	58
	What's happening	60
	I am New York City 2	62
	Alabanza : in praise of local 100	64
	Ghazal for open hands	66
	Thanksgiving	67
	For the Jim Crow Mexican restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where my cousin Estaban was forbidden to wait tables because he wears dreadlocks	69
	Imagine the angels of bread	70
	Ezequiel	72
	Mao & Matisse	74
	Heading for Manhattan by train	75
	Isolated bourgeoisie	76
	Cultivation	77
	Return to normalcy	78
	How many more minutes until we can devour our breached contract?	80
	The rockhopper	84
	The open kitchen	85
	Everest	87
	These current events	89
	The glass bracelets	91
	A post-colonial tale	93
	No	95
	Calls from the outside world	97
	A woman strangles	99
	Minnesora farmers blame bad crop on Jews	100
	Unless you are a horse	101
	Light, dark, east and west	102
	From Guests of space	104
	Weather	110
	Caught, April 2002 - a prayer for peace	111
	Laments for the Afghan women	113
	Emine and Hamide	114
	New southern exposure	116
	Genuflection to petty officer first class Leonette Masters	117
	Song embodying what I've learned in thirty-five years	118
	Portrait in rhythm and blues	119
	Jewish	121
	Three recent trips to the golden past : East Village, Clarksdale Mississippi, Athens	122
	Theological	124
	Letters to the dead : Denise Levertov	125
	The witness	127
	Bilingual instructions	128
	Denigration	129
	Present tense	130
	We are not responsible	131
	Xenophobic nightmare in a foreign language	132
	The swiftness with which those cities fell	134
	Liberators	138
	Psychic killed by train	139
	Re : the tobacco institute	141
	Two stories	142
	Topography	143
	"Protective and defensive devices"	151
	East-west dialog 2002	153
	Ace	156
	All the news - September 23, 2001	158
	Official versions	159
	The eye	164
	Usonian journals 2000	165
	Tomorrow will really be Sunday	172
	The public stammer	174
	Somerville Saturday night	175
	Gay life	176
	They kill us	177
	... To be held	178
	Chant	179
	Bus ride	180
	The news	181
	Letter to David James Duncan February 16, 2003	182
	Another attempt at rescue	184
	Gray day in January in La Jolla	186
	Transcircularities	188
	"So what"	190
	Signals & demarcations	192
	For boats only	194
	Two quarters, two nickels and the jacket of the one album he ever recorded - America welcomes home the desert sax - are in the open felt-lined case on the platform of the Astor Place subway station : Gulf War I	196
	Workingman's wife : who she is, who she is not, what she buys - and why	197
	On class and desire	201
	The Coriolis effect	203
	Walker Evans in Bridgeport	205