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- Roland Barthes, S/Z, trans. Richard Miller (Oxford: Blackwell,
[ 1970 ] 2000 ).
- Charles Bernstein, ‘Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form’,
in A Poetics, pp. 218 – 28 (pp. 218 , 220 ).
- Charles Bernstein, ‘Three or Four Things I Know About
Him’, in Content’s Dream, pp. 13 – 33 (p. 26 ).
- Charles Bernstein, Girly Man (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2006 ). All subsequent references to this edition are given
in the text.
- Bernstein, ‘Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form’,
p. 225.
- Bernstein, ‘Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form’, p. 225.
- Bernstein, ‘Comedy and the Politics of Poetic Form’, p. 226.
- David Orr, ‘The Politics of Poetry’, Poetry, 192. 4 ( 2008 ),
409 – 18. Available online at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
journal/article.html?id= 181746.
- Eliot Weinberger, What I Heard About Iraq (London: Verso,
2005 ). All subsequent references to this edition are given in the
text.
- Mikhail Bakhtin, ‘Discourse in Poetry and Discourse in the
Novel’, in Michael Hoquist (ed.), The Dialogic Imagination
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981 ), p. 286.
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York:
Schocken Books), p. 382.
- Tim Woods, The Politics of the Limit: Ethics and Politics
in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2002 ), pp. 249 – 50.
- Choman Hardi, Life for Us (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2004 ). All
subsequent references to this edition are given in the text.
- Choman Hardi, ‘Breaking the Circle of Silence about Anfal
Women’, available online at http://www.chomanhardi.com/research.
html.
- Ibid.
- Forché, Against Forgetting, p. 45.
- Choman Hardi, ‘Kurdish Women Refugees: Obstacles and
Opportunities’, Researching Asylum in London Database ( 2005 ).
Available online at http://www.researchasylum.org.uk/?lid= 366.
- Yusef Komunyakaa, Dien Cai Dau (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
