Regarding: Dovelike, This Is How Doves Cry
Regarding: Oppose use of witch-hunt law to deport Mahmoud Khalil! The Militant, Vol. 89/No. 12 – March 31, 2025
Eight pages from Recent Events, 330 pages, non-paginated, self-published by the poet, San Francisco, 1995.
Problem: Where (1994) to put “bad on / the blood of the rest of the world” – wouldn’t fit in Opening Guns of World War III – Historical context: postwar AFL-CIO; current context: Can the question be asked whether successful proletarianization of the party might cut both ways and inflect, however attenuated the old AFL-CIO stain, the hard line division between offensive war (Washington) and defensive war (Tel Aviv)? James Cannon: There is always a grain of truth in the argument of your opponent ((mis?) quoted from memory, probably Building a Proletarian Party ). “Bob, who gleefully pounced on our contradictions / with a brutality that didn’t consider anything. / The form of debate, the defined ground. / Argument, his certainty of being right.” (Recent Events, Vicinity 9). “That morning, remembering the conversation / with Nan at the Hall as the snowstorm hit Des Moines, / that his own sister was raped, that / was why he would stop / to help, who had heard voices bound to desolation, / anonymous misery . . . ” (Recent Events, Vicinity 7).
