Confiscation - Greenwood, William
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"Running a republic under the economic laws of a monarchy must of necessity result in producing the same conditions - great wealth for some and great poverty for the rest. This may be a government by the people, but it certainly is no longer a government for the people. Heretofore individual greed has had full swing in the United States, and naturally enough the ablest returned in possession of everything worth grabbing. And naturally enough, too, if a republic means a country owned by all its people, it cannot be a republic if it is owned by only a few."

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"Running a republic under the economic laws of a monarchy must of necessity result in producing the same conditions - great wealth for some and great poverty for the rest. This may be a government by the people, but it certainly is no longer a government for the people. Heretofore individual greed has had full swing in the United States, and naturally enough the ablest returned in possession of everything worth grabbing. And naturally enough, too, if a republic means a country owned by all its people, it cannot be a republic if it is owned by only a few."
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Autorenporträt
William Greenwood was born in Arizona. He studied languages and social sciences, ultimately receiving a degree in philosophy cum laude from the University of California. After joining the farm workers' struggle for justice during early unionization, he organized the first agricultural producer-marketing cooperative of Mexican farm workers. This led to a career in development which took him to residencies in Latin America, the Middle East and Central Asia, working on agricultural and small business projects. In the 1970's he co-founded Green Horse Press with a small group of poets to translate and publish new poetry previously unavailable to English-speakers. Green Horse published his translation of a selection from Guatemalan poet Arqueles Morales' La Paz Aún No Ganada which had been selected for the 1971 Cuban Colección La Honda; as well as his first chapbook, Into the Center of America. In 2014 Word Temple Press published Landscape/Cityscape, of which Paul Vangelisti wrote: "Greenwood resumes his singular, sometimes eccentric explorations, getting at the core of what language may propose for one's way of living. It is a sensual, hard-bought knowledge that pervades Greenwood's poetry, founded in and of the world, reinforced by the adventure of language." The present chapbook, Twenty Love Poems and A Song of Hope, was a finalist one year for the Blue Light Poetry Prize.