ABSTRACT
In the stories and poetry that comprise 'Other Agitations, ' Mike Sharpe's ingathering of history, economics, literature, and philosophy richly informs his satire. Franz Kafka, Jane Austen and Ernest Hemingway, Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Emily Dickinson serve as 'agitators.' Sharpe rewrites familiar tales creating new originals in his unique style and weltanschauung. Truth, in human hands, becomes conditional
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
Candide the Tenth
chapter |2 pages
My Background
chapter |1 pages
Tora Bora
chapter |2 pages
I Meet Joe Wilson in Niger
chapter |1 pages
I Go to the President's Press Conference
chapter |2 pages
Katrina
chapter |1 pages
Death
chapter |2 pages
I Meet Kurt Vonnegut
chapter |2 pages
I Meet Einstein
chapter |2 pages
Connie's Misadventures in Afghanistan, Israel, and Palestine
chapter |2 pages
I Meet the First Black President
chapter |1 pages
I Slip Into and Out of Iran
chapter |2 pages
I See What's Going On in China
chapter |2 pages
I See What's Going On in Russia
chapter |2 pages
I Get a Job in Finance
chapter |2 pages
I Visit Walter Reed Memorial Hospital
chapter |3 pages
Genocide in the Congo
chapter |3 pages
The Miner Rescue in Chile
chapter |2 pages
Langley Air Force Base
chapter |2 pages
Murder in Tucson
chapter |2 pages
The Disaster in Japan
chapter |1 pages
Blacks Out of Work
chapter |2 pages
Migrant Farm Workers
chapter |2 pages
A Narrow Escape in Libya
chapter |2 pages
The Hundred-Year-Old Man
chapter |3 pages
Candide Is Sentenced to Death
part |49 pages
Prose
chapter |5 pages
God Is Guilty
chapter |5 pages
Ruthless
chapter |3 pages
An End to Fighting
chapter |5 pages
The Voyage of the Titanic
chapter |2 pages
The Hangman's Handbook
chapter |3 pages
Everybody's Political ABCs
chapter |13 pages
Five Variations on Jack and Jill
chapter |1 pages
Eternal Bliss
chapter |1 pages
I Divorce Myself
chapter |1 pages
Grand Old Times
chapter |4 pages
On Books
chapter |2 pages
A Surprise for the Dictator
chapter |2 pages
The Man of Many Masks
part |36 pages
Poetry
chapter |7 pages
The Day the World Came to an End
chapter |13 pages
Letters to Emily Dickinson
chapter |3 pages
Testimony of a War Criminal
chapter |1 pages
The Good Soldier
chapter |1 pages
Iraq–Free at Last
chapter |1 pages
Spread It All Around
chapter |1 pages
Give It to Them
chapter |1 pages
Connecting Flights
chapter |1 pages
Lessons from New Orleans
chapter |1 pages
Quote from an Unidentified Source in Washington
chapter |1 pages
I'll Never See Him Again
chapter |1 pages
You Lied to Us
chapter |2 pages
My First Son
part |15 pages
Selected Poems from Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed, 2005
chapter |1 pages
Heartbreak House
chapter |1 pages
I Saw This
chapter |3 pages
The Eyeball
chapter |2 pages
The Wrong House
chapter |1 pages
His Heart Was Heavy
chapter |1 pages
The Life of a Snowflake
chapter |1 pages
Intelligent Design
chapter |3 pages
The Helpless Giant
part |7 pages
Selected Poems from A Requiem for New Orleans, 2006
chapter |4 pages
Where Are You, God?
chapter |1 pages
A Dream Deferred
part |25 pages
Selected Agitations from Challenge