Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. A note on transliteration and sources xxiii
7. Introduction: Thirty Years of Free Poetic Speech 1
8. Part I Forms of Free Speech
9. 1 Politics: writing poems in a world of harm 37
10. 2 Performing Poetry in the Age of the Internet 82
11. 3 On Magnitude: poetry in large and small forms 116
12. Part II Free Speech and Freed Minds: Poetry and Its Others
13. 4 The Music of the Present 153
14. 5 Poems and Photographs: materializing the ineffable 201
15. 6 Freedoms of the Spirit: poems of faith after the fall 255
16. Afterword: Poetry and Freedom after February 24, 2022 304
17. Notes 319
18. Index 399
19. A NOTE ON THE TYPE 409