Hazel Smith
DAYS OF RAGE
Note: David Gilbert, a radical US activist and former member of the Weather Underground Organisation in the 1970s, has been incarcerated for 37 years since his arrest for his involvement in the Brink’s armed robbery in 1981. Quotations (other than the Olson quotation) are taken from David Gilbert, 2011, My Life in SDS, The Weather Underground, and Beyond, PM Press, 2011 and from Interview de David Gilbert, 1985.
Copyright © Hazel Smith 2018
Hazel Smith has published four volumes of poetry including Word Migrants (Giramondo, 2016). She has also published three CDs of poetry and performance work, and numerous collaborative multimedia works, including motions, with Will Luers and Roger Dean, selected for the 2016 Electronic Literature Organisation Collection 3. She is a member of austraLYSIS, the sound and intermedia arts group, with whom she has performed her work extensively. From 2007-2017 she was a Research Professor in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, where she is currently an Adjunct Professor.