The fourth volume of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Series, All That's
Left is a powerful collection of poems for social justice by
street-poet-turned- laureate Jack Hirschman. The volume opens with
Hirschman's autobiographical inaugural address, which vividly traces his
career as poet, translator, and agitator.
Included are several of Hirschman's earlier poems, marking successive
stages of his poetic development. The poems following the address were
composed during his tenure as poet laureate, covering contemporary
outrages like post-Katrina New Orleans and the Virginia Tech tragedy,
paying homage to fallen poetic comrades like Jack Kerouac and Bob
Kaufman, and exploring more personal dimensions of love.