Speak These Words: a Guerilla Poets anthology

by Janaka Stucky

Book by Stucky, Janaka

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

About the author

Janaka Stucky is the author of The Truth Is We Are Perfect (Third Man Books, 2015) and the Publisher of Black Ocean as well as its annual poetry journal, Handsome. He is also the author of two chapbooks: Your Name Is The Only Freedom and The World Will Deny It For You. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fence and North American Review, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in the Boston Phoenix. He is practicing the perfection of effort through right action and joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Reviews

[Matthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not all of the poems are great, but the great ones are greater than great. Some I can recite from memory after reading it only a single time.

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not so much a fan of Janaka Stucky (or most of the other poets in this collection), but it's worth the read if only for the last few poets in the collection, especially Matthew Moon, John F. Kersey, and Lauren Mazurka. Impressive to say the least.