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America The great land Of cognoscenti Conmen Sends out invitations 2. death-dance death-masks desert-roses for Valentine skull-garlands for born-again satanic saints 3. all words are not words war is a word that can kill macabre fantasies die hard said Dean Moriarty: Damn! What kicks!!! What a land!!! That was on the road in the fifties Now we only have more Concrete jungles and soul troubles And bombs, bombs and more bombs Blessed are the dead... · · · · · ·
Iraq on Swans Poetry on Swans Kahnupad Haider is the nom de plume Haider A. Khan uses when he writes poetry. Kahnupad is the name of the earliest buddhist poet c. 8th-9th century in Bengal. Khan is an award-winning poet, translator and literary critic. He has written on Octavio Paz, James Joyce and the Japanese Haiku master Basho, among others. He is a professor at the graduate school of international studies, University of Denver, and a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this poem on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work without the expressed written authorization of Swans. This material is copyrighted, © Haider A. Khan 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. |
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