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Unread 04-13-2011, 06:42 AM
Andrew Frisardi Andrew Frisardi is offline
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John Haines, whose death was recently announced over on GT, wrote a number of political poems--including a satirical series called "Diogenes in Washington" which I can't find in my books.

I found this late poem of his, "Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion", online.

He was a good friend of Hayden Carruth and Wendell Berry, two other poets who were/are outspoken about politics in their poetry.

(Editing back in to add that I don't think this is a particularly memorable poem, and in fact is a good example of some of the pitfalls of writing political poetry. So I guess it only fits half the description of this thread--it's political but not kickass. John H. did write some kickass political stuff as well, but I don't have time to find it or type it in at the moment.)

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