Contributors
Introduction by Joel Kovel and Deedee Halleck
JOEL KOVEL (1936-2018) was a prestigious scholar and best-selling author on psychotherapy, a militant left activist from the middle 1960s onward, and an eco-theorist. He was a Professor Emeritus at Bard College and the author of several books, notably Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or The End of the World (2002) , and an advisory editor of Socialist Resistance.
DEEDEE HALLECK is a media activist, independent filmmaker, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grassroots community television network. She is Pro-fessor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of Hand Held Visions — The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media (2001).
Here's What People Are Saying
“If someone claims they married Puerto Rico, it means they must have married the poet, Papoleto, who is the essence of the island, its people, struggles, dignity, music and dance. Not in a very long time has a son of Borinquen unearth its history and its foilables, from romance to politics of this enchanted harried nation as Papoleto has done in this collection, PAPOLíTICO!” ~Ntozake Shange, poet, writer, and author of the classic choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbows is enuf (1977)
“ Papo’s latest poetry collection, PAPOLíTICO, does not allow even the most progressive or the most radical of us to get away with the hypocrisy of simply living and getting by. Papo’s verses stalk you in midday, throw you up against the wall of indifference in the alley of numbing conformity, and pummels you into feeling the pain of folks, conditions you’ve trained yourself to ignore. His metaphors demand you swallow the fetid water of racism, the rancid meat of capitalism, the insidious candy of nihilism, and forces us to think of what we’ve become as a nation. PAPOLíTICO also reminds us that someone is still watching for us, feeling for us, living for us, all with the hope that we rise and resist and love again.” ~Felipe Luciano, poet, community activist, journalist, and lecturer
“I truly appreciate where Papoleto is coming from politically, and his latest book, PAPOLíTICO, has been aptly named. I love his sense of humor and of course, his sarcasm – he is good and crazy! What’s important here is that Papoleto deals with the pain, the love, and the uncertainties of life as only a true poet could. From the first poem to the last, it’s clear that he lives and breathes poetry naturally. It was a real pleasure reading PAPOLíTICO, and traveling into the mind and soul of a tender human being.” ~Abiodun Oyewole, The Last Poets, author of Branches of the Tree of Life (2014) and The Beauty of Being (2018)
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