Northwestern University Press, 2006 Paper: 978-1-931896-28-3 Library of Congress Classification PS3602.R3427T47 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The poetry in Terrestrial Music has been inspired by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Martín Espada. In lyrics that explore issues that affect our daily lives, such as ecology, genocide, hunger, nuclear damage, and violence, John Bradley not only celebrates the beauty of earth and the redeeming power of nature, but also confronts social injustice and fully explores the impact of the industrial uses of radium with detailed historical anecdotes and documentation. These poems identify one common source of strength: the earth is part of our identity, our body, and our soul.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Bradley is a poet and playwright. A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, he performed two years of alternate service. For his writing, he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Art Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. He currently teaches at Northern Illinois University.
REVIEWS
"From the historical and technical to the lyrical...he is able to surprise us as we turn the pages."
— The Main Street Rag
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"Bradley's poems remind us what the true role of a modern poet needs to be."
— The Bloomsbury Review
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"John Bradley's Terrestrial Music embodies the minor triumphs and enormous despairs of our Atomic Century."
— Maggie Jaffe
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
WHERE I LIVE
Where I Live
Terrestrial Music
Involving the Use of the Word “America”
Reckoning
The Angels of Sodom
Two Tangos with the General
On the Death of Pol Pot
“Rifle Shots Kill Girl, 12, Racing Out of Her Bed”
Margot, Otto, Anne, and Edith Frank, Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, May 1941
Bosnian Love Poem
“Improper Disposal”
Cocoon
Insomnia of the News
SCIENCE AS A MECHANISM
To Dance with Uranium
Radithor: A Short History in Four Reels
Watch Alice Glow
Sailors Shielding Their Eyes During Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini, 1947
I Sing the Body Atomic
After Viewing The Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Rapture of Fire: Amarillo, Texas, 1984
Escalation
Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion
Story with Blue and Green
EARTH ANGEL
Earth Angel
The Institute of Nuclear Poetics
Animal Light
Jesus and the Corn Mothers
My Brother Calls from Cleveland (To Tell Me This Dream)
Letter to Dina
Terrestrial Music
Mortal Colors
The Uses of Poetry
White Footprints
On the Way to Mecca
On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman
After a Rain
Notes
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Northwestern University Press, 2006 Paper: 978-1-931896-28-3
The poetry in Terrestrial Music has been inspired by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Martín Espada. In lyrics that explore issues that affect our daily lives, such as ecology, genocide, hunger, nuclear damage, and violence, John Bradley not only celebrates the beauty of earth and the redeeming power of nature, but also confronts social injustice and fully explores the impact of the industrial uses of radium with detailed historical anecdotes and documentation. These poems identify one common source of strength: the earth is part of our identity, our body, and our soul.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John Bradley is a poet and playwright. A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, he performed two years of alternate service. For his writing, he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Art Fellowships and a Pushcart Prize. He currently teaches at Northern Illinois University.
REVIEWS
"From the historical and technical to the lyrical...he is able to surprise us as we turn the pages."
— The Main Street Rag
— -
"Bradley's poems remind us what the true role of a modern poet needs to be."
— The Bloomsbury Review
— -
"John Bradley's Terrestrial Music embodies the minor triumphs and enormous despairs of our Atomic Century."
— Maggie Jaffe
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
WHERE I LIVE
Where I Live
Terrestrial Music
Involving the Use of the Word “America”
Reckoning
The Angels of Sodom
Two Tangos with the General
On the Death of Pol Pot
“Rifle Shots Kill Girl, 12, Racing Out of Her Bed”
Margot, Otto, Anne, and Edith Frank, Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, May 1941
Bosnian Love Poem
“Improper Disposal”
Cocoon
Insomnia of the News
SCIENCE AS A MECHANISM
To Dance with Uranium
Radithor: A Short History in Four Reels
Watch Alice Glow
Sailors Shielding Their Eyes During Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini, 1947
I Sing the Body Atomic
After Viewing The Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Rapture of Fire: Amarillo, Texas, 1984
Escalation
Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion
Story with Blue and Green
EARTH ANGEL
Earth Angel
The Institute of Nuclear Poetics
Animal Light
Jesus and the Corn Mothers
My Brother Calls from Cleveland (To Tell Me This Dream)
Letter to Dina
Terrestrial Music
Mortal Colors
The Uses of Poetry
White Footprints
On the Way to Mecca
On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman
After a Rain
Notes
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