poetry
The Factory Songs of Mr. Toad - Martin Glaberman
In addition to his political writings, Martin Glaberman was also a published poet. Here is an example of his work.
Wildcat I
A most practical cat.
Walking silently on padded feet
Unseen, unheard
Power concentrated
in a compact body
Lean, lithe, less
in appearance
Than the explosive leap,
periodic culmination
of growing power
of growing hunger
Amber, black, mottled, gold.
All colors help to hide
its invisible path
Slowly it climbs and waits
on limb
on cliff
on overhang
Muehsam, Erich, 1878-1934
A short biography of Erich Muehsam, German poet, playwright, bohemian and anarchist revolutionary.
Erich Muehsam was born in Berlin in 1878 into a fairly well-to-do Jewish family. Soon after his family moved to Luebeck in north Germany where his father worked as a pharmacist (in fact the pharmacy is still there).
Duke, James Herriott, 1939-1992
A short biography of Australian anarchist poet, James Herriott Duke, who also lived in the UK.
Remembering Jim Duke
"I started performing poems as a timid person with a stutter but the spirit of the times soon converted me into a bellowing bull." Jim Duke
“The voice played like a human saxophone.” Nicholas Zurbrugg
Bevington, Louisa Sarah, 1845-1895
A short biograpy of English poet and anarchist communist Louisa Bevington.
Louisa Bevington was born into a Quaker family on 18th May 1845, in St. John’s Hill, Battersea. The occupation of her father was described as a “gentleman”. She was the oldest of eight children, seven of whom were girls. She started writing verse at an early age.
Andrea, Virgilia d’, 1890-1932
A short biography of Italian anarchist, anti-fascist, teacher and poet Virgilia d'Andrea.
Virgilia d’Andrea
Born Sulmona-Abruzzi, Italy, 11 February 1890, died New York, 20 March 1932
Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982
A short biography of poet, anarchist and pioneer of the Beat movement Kenneth Rexroth.
Labor power on the market,
Firepower on the battlefield,
It is all one merely two
Aspects of the same monster.
The Dragon and the Unicorn
Levine, Philip, 1928-today
A short biography and information about the politics of American anarchist poet, Philip Levine.
Philip Levine was born in the industrial city of Detroit to parents of Russian Jewish origin in 1928. Detroit was the home of Father Coughlin, a notorious anti-Semitic Catholic priest who broadcast on the radio every Sunday. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence fighting people who wanted to beat him up because he was Jewish.
Marini, Giovanni, 1942-2001
A biography of Italian working class poet, writer and anarchist Giovanni Marini, caught up in Italy's Strategy of Tension and unjustly convicted of the murder of a fascist.
The late 1960s and the 1970s were strange and violent years in Italy.
