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Occupied by Carol Mirakove Poems 2003 $10 ISBN: 0-932716-66-0
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Occupiedby Carol Mirakove is the third winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award. Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, this year's judge, writes: "Occupied is porous to life, a life Mirakove expresses with a strict beauty of witness, of demand." The book's areas of witness are the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Both an angry and a thoughtful book, Occupied provides a reference section at the end citing sources for its naming of names. In spirit, it is a work of poetics belonging to the body of contemporary poetry that is providing a public forum for provocative, soul-searching discussion.
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