I was thinking of doing some "Yawp" Google Haikus (Googlus?) in honor of Chris Key's reappearance at the Yawp (Yes, he's back, pilgrims). When I did the requisite search on the words "Barbaric Yawp," I got this curious headline hit:
My barbaric yawp: The official version
Tom Westin Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer
Writers on America:
15 Reflections
U.S. Department of State, 61 pp
Free on request from the U.S. Embassy
Sometimes the world's only superpower gets no respect. It's no secret that the United States faces an uphill public relations battle convincing its neighbors that behind its oft-criticized foreign policy lies a nation of good-intentioned and interesting people.
This is where the U.S. Office of International Information Programs, the foreign propaganda arm of the U.S. State Department, steps in.
This year, along with such optimistically titled works as Afghanistan: Seeds of Hope, and Iraq: From Fear to Freedom, U.S. embassies worldwide are handing out Writers on America, a booklet featuring 15 short essays by American poets, novelists and a historian. U.S. foreign service officer and writer Mark Jacobs, one of the authors featured, came up with the idea for the book to "illuminate in an interesting way certain America (sic) values--freedom, diversity, democracy--that may not be well understood in all parts of the world," according to the introduction. (continue reading at the Daily Yomiuri)
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