"The heart that seeks something,
I release it to the sea"
- Ozaki Hosai
to
Joseph Lee Rykiel and Karen Kleinschmidt-Rykiel
Lea Tammi
Steven Walenta and Deborah Gussman
David Robertson
John Crowley and Suzanne Leks-Crowley
Kate Tyler and Roland Wall
Max von Strandtman
Jill Itzkowitz
Nels and Debbie J'Anthony
Thomas Lamar and Tim Tonnesen
CONTENTS
The Day After
page 1
Poem Against the Reagan
Administration page 2
At a Rally in
Washington Against the Draft page 2
America Revisited
page 3
Poems for a Small
Place to Rest page 4page
5 page 6
What He Would Not
Tell Him page 7
Waking Poem
page 7
Moon
page 7
Laborers
page 7
Spring 1980
page 7
Lebanon 1982
page 8
As the Latin
American War Approaches page 8
Poem for
Immediate Disarmament page 8
To Whom It May Concern
page 9
Song of the Little
Girl page 10
To the second collection:
All Fall
Down © Copyright 1987, 2000 by Michael Mayo.
All rights reserved. All poetry
appearing in these pages is protected under U.S. and International Copyright
Laws and may not be reproduced, reprinted, re-transmitted or altered in
any manner without the express written consent of the poet.
Some of these poems in All Fall
Down appeared in the following: Coop. Antigruppo Siciliano (Italy),
The Delaware Alternative Press, Dreamstreets, The James White Review, Kick
It Over (Canada), Peace News (England), Peace or Perish: A Crisis Anthology,
Practising Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry,
and Tangent.
"America Revisited" was originally
modeled after Allen Ginsberg's "America", found in Howl and Other Poems.
"Poem for Immediate Disarmament" was written after Robert Hershon's "The
Minute Ago", which I read in Where is Vietnam? American Poets
Respond
All Fall Down was originally
published in paperback in 1987 in San Francisco, California.
ISBN: 0-932977-32-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card
Number: 87-61185
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