Swans Commentary http://www.swans.com/ December 14, 2009
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Note from the Editors: Long-time readers of Swans are familiar with our
Year-End Reviews. Every December we ask our regular contributors to
focus on one topic -- to reflect upon the passing year. This latest
special issue is the most comprehensive we've ever published with 16
entries covering a wide range of perspectives. They are as diverse as
the members of our bevy whose origins are firmly rooted in many
countries and cultures, from Ghana and Italy (Sicily included), from
Canada to Australia, France and the United States. They take on
politics and society, culture and counterculture, fact and fiction, with
creativity and humor. And despite the diversity of voices, venues, and
styles a theme emerges: Hope. A word that encapsulated the beginning of
2009, and the absence of which, as Barack Obama noted in his Nobel
lecture, "can rot a society from within." So we *hope* you will enjoy
the contributions of Graham Lea, Louis Proyect, Charles Marowitz,
Gilles d'Aymery, Femi Akomolafe, Jan Baughman, Jeffery Klaehn, Steve
Shay, Marie Rennard, Martin Murie, Michael Barker, Peter Byrne, Michael
Doliner, Raju Peddada, as well as the beautifully poetic words of Guido
Monte who highlights with the help of his students the words of Primo
Levi, and the message of hope in French and English that Simone
Alié-Daram wants us all to heed.
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http://www.swans.com/library/art15/glea10.html Some Lines In Favour Of
A Troupe Of Buffalo Flying Over The White House Singing Pastoral Songs
- Graham Lea
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/lproy58.html The Winter Of Liberal
Discontent - Louis Proyect
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/cmarow154.html Angry Men -
Beligerent Women - Charles Marowitz
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/ga277.html The First Obama Year:
Business as Usual, but with a Friendlier Face - Gilles d'Aymery
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/femia25.html Obama: Were We All
Naive? - Femi Akomolafe
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/jeb212.html 2009: It Was What It
Was - Jan Baughman
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/klaehn09.html Notes From The Edge -
Jeffery Klaehn
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/sshay04.html 2009 And "Mooving"
Ahead - Steve Shay
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/marier42.html French 2009 Vintage -
Marie Rennard
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/murie84.html 2010, The
Make-Or-Break Year - Martin Murie
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/barker38.html Failure Of
Progressive Thought - Michael Barker
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/pbyrne115.html Year End Closet
Sweep Out - Peter Byrne
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/mdolin49.html The Official Policies
- Michael Doliner
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/rajup24.html A 2009 Year-End Rant -
Raju Peddada
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/gmonte80.html Levi 1943 In Front Of
Our 2009 - Multilingual Poetry by Guido Monte
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/salie07.html Bilan Matin/Morning
Appraisal - Poem by Simone Alié-Daram
http://www.swans.com/library/art15/letter180.html Letters to the Editor
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