Poems in memory of 9.11.2001
Tuesday September 9, 2008
It can be a great compliment to say that a poem is “timeless” — but many great poems are also inextricably bound to their time, rising out of history & carrying us back to a particular time with each reading, so that the present moment resonates with the past carried in the poem into now. Once again we invoke this commemorative function of poems, for the seventh anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America, by republishing our “contemporaneous” 9.11 anthology: Poems After the Attack. This collection comes to you now, seven years later, accompanied by the same wish it has carried since we first put it together: In grief, anger, consternation, confusion or resolve, we hope these poems offer you comfort, clarity or grace.
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“September 11 Wall Street Sonnets” by Eugene Schlanger, know as The Wall Street Poet, was published in Paris on Sept. 11, 2006 and contains the original poems in English and a contemporary French translation. The book is also available on Amazon in both the Kindle (electronic) and paper formats. Many readers have praised the realism of these poems about September 11 and the subsequent revitalization of Lower Manhattan to the author at his readings in NYC. http://www.september11wallstreetsonnets.com