{"product_id":"poetry-of-the-law-david-kader-9781587298660","title":"Poetry of the Law: From Chaucer to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the time of Blackstone's \"Farewell,\" poetry has been seen as celestial, pastoral, solitary, and mellifluous; law as venerable, social, urban, and cacophonous. This perception has persisted even to the present, with the bourgeoning field of law and literature focusing almost exclusively on fiction and drama. \u003ci\u003ePoetry of the Law\u003c\/i\u003e, however, reveals the richness of poetry about the law. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry of the Law\u003c\/i\u003e is the first serious anthology of law-related poetry ever published in the United States. As the editors make clear, though, \u003ci\u003eserious\u003c\/i\u003e need not imply \u003ci\u003esolemn.\u003c\/i\u003e Instead, David Kader and Michael Stanford have assembled a surprisingly capacious collection of 100 poems from the 1300s to the present.\u003cp\u003eSet in courtrooms, lawyers' offices, law-school classrooms, and judges' chambers; peopled with attorneys, the imprisoned (both innocent and guilty), judges, jurors, witnesses, and law-enforcement officers; based on real events (think \"Scottsboro\") or exploring the complexity of abstract legal ideas; the poems celebrate justice or decry the lack of it, ranging in tone from witty to wry, sad to celebratory, funny to infuriating. \u003ci\u003ePoetry of the Law\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become an authoritative source for years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003eContributors Include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. H. Auden\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Burns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLewis Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ciardi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaniel Defoe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Donne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRita Dove\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMart n Espada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. E. Housman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLangston Hughes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Jonson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eX. J. Kennedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Kooser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. H. Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Lee Masters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. S. Merwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdna St. Vincent Millay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Walter Raleigh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuriel Rukeyser\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarl Sandburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Swift\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMona Van Duyn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Carlos Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"The Hanging Judge\" by Eavan Boland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome to the country where justice is seen to be done, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDone daily. Come to the country where\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSentence is passed by word of mouth and raw\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoys split like infinitives. Look, here\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe hanged our son, our only son\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd hang him still and still we call it law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Kader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 158729866X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587298660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"David Kader","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985216635135,"sku":"9781587298660","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2d6f0d0f-95cc-48f8-9d29-359168d86a26.jpg?v=1683276249","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poetry-of-the-law-david-kader-9781587298660","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}