Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America cid_6099 Greg D’Amato

Greg D’Amato

such as religious or theological studies

powerful collection of dispatches

The author collects twenty-three of her poems about the birds that have been such an important part of her life: hawks

and Equity

Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America cid_6099 Greg D’AmatoA revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paines Common Sensecalling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans In his famous cry for inhabitants of the thirteen colonies to seek independence from Britain, Thomas Paine claims to call for total freedom and equality, yet his arguments are directed only at white men, excluding women and people of color. Crystal Simone Smith, known for writing