Just wanted to say, I'm glad it's one of your favorites, too. "For the Student Strikers" always moves me -- which is certainly a rare thing for political poems.
It seems to be addressed to the "side" the poet is most sympathetic with -- and this is (part of) how it avoids the awful self-righteousness that gives political poetry a bad name. Amazingly, the poem actually offers a sort of practical (but also moral) advice about how to achieve the striker's ends (in fact it is a kind of counsel against self-righteousness).
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