Comments on: Two Poems by Damien Echols http://rattle.com/blog/2008/08/two-poems-by-damien-echols/ Poetry for everyone. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:45:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Trish http://rattle.com/blog/2008/08/two-poems-by-damien-echols/comment-page-1/#comment-375 Trish Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:25:27 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=69#comment-375 Wow. First Love is such a sweet and sad visual poem. Uncle Charlie reminds me of how most parents today think. Keep them sheltered from that sex scene on t.v., but it's okay to watch violent images. Weird. All I can say is I hope to God there is some kind of justice in this world and Echols gets his fair day in court soon. Loads of people are hoping he gets a fair trial. Me included. Wow. First Love is such a sweet and sad visual poem.

Uncle Charlie reminds me of how most parents today think. Keep them sheltered from that sex scene on t.v., but it’s okay to watch violent images. Weird.

All I can say is I hope to God there is some kind of justice in this world and Echols gets his fair day in court soon. Loads of people are hoping he gets a fair trial. Me included.

]]> By: Anoth R. Poet http://rattle.com/blog/2008/08/two-poems-by-damien-echols/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Anoth R. Poet Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:47:28 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=69#comment-206 Thanks for making us aware of the situation, and sharing these poems. "The chain link fence behind me/made cold diamonds on my back" is a wonderful image. I am reminded also of the recent case of Hiu Lui Ng, who died in the custody of US Immigration and Customs enforcement, of untreated cancer. http://www.nytimes.com /2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html *** I have a copy of Etheridge Knight's "Poems from Prison." "Broadside Press, $1.00" it says on the cover. Then on the inside back cover it says you can get single poems for 50 cents each. From 1968. "Thank God for DNA analysis," I say, for exonerating the innocent on death row. Thanks for making us aware of the situation, and sharing these poems. “The chain link fence behind me/made cold diamonds on my back” is a wonderful image.

I am reminded also of the recent case of Hiu Lui Ng, who died in the custody of US Immigration and Customs enforcement, of untreated cancer.

http://www.nytimes.com
/2008/08/13/nyregion/13detain.html

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I have a copy of Etheridge Knight’s “Poems from Prison.” “Broadside Press, $1.00″ it says on the cover. Then on the inside back cover it says you can get single poems for 50 cents each. From 1968.

“Thank God for DNA analysis,” I say, for exonerating the innocent on death row.

]]> By: The West Memphis Three » Timothy Green http://rattle.com/blog/2008/08/two-poems-by-damien-echols/comment-page-1/#comment-205 The West Memphis Three » Timothy Green Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:49:37 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=69#comment-205 [...] at Rattle.com we feature a pair of short poems by Damien Echols, who’s bio places him on death row in Arkansas for a crime he didn’t commit. As they [...] [...] at Rattle.com we feature a pair of short poems by Damien Echols, who’s bio places him on death row in Arkansas for a crime he didn’t commit. As they [...]

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