Come Together: Imagine Peace: Poems (Harmony Anthology Series)

Ann Smith [Editor]; Philip Metres [Editor]; Larry Smith [Editor]; Sam Hamill [Contributor]; Denise Levertov [Contributor]; William Stafford [Contributor]; Kenneth Rexroth [Contributor]; Kenneth Patchen [Contributor]; Muriel Rukeyser [Contributor]; et. al., Carolyn Forche [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 1933964227 / ISBN 13: 9781933964225

Published by Bottom Dog Press, 2008

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Sturdy, clean copy, slight fold at top front cover. cv. Seller Inventory # Sq25005

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Title: Come Together: Imagine Peace: Poems (Harmony...

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

100 poets voice their concern and vision for peace.

Poems of Witness & Elegy, Exhortation & Action, Reconciliation, Shared Humanity,

Wildness & Home, Ritual & Vigil, Meditation & Prayer.

Precedents: Sappho, Whitman, Dickinson, Cavafy, Millay, Patchen, Rexroth, Shapiro,

Lowell, Creeley, Rukeyser, Ginsberg, Levertov, Lorde, Stafford, Jordan, Amichai, Darwish

Contemporaries: Abinader, Ali, Bass, Berry, Bauer, Berrigan, Bly, Bodhrán, Bradley, Brazaitis, Bright, Bryner, Budbill, Cervine, Charara, Cording, Cone, Crooker, Daniels, di Prima, Davis, Dougherty, Ellis, Espada, Estes, Ferlinghetti, Forché, Frost, Gibson, Gundy, Gilberg, Habra, Hague, Hamill, Harter, Hassler, Haven, Heyen, Hirshfield, Hughes, Joudah, Jensen, Karmin, Kendig, Komunyakaa, Kovacik, Kryss, Krysl, LaFemina, Landis, Leslie, Lifshin, Loden, Lovin, Lucas, McCallum, McGuane, Machan, McQuaid, Meek, Metres, Miltner, Montgomery, Norman, Nye, Pankey, Pendarvis, Pinsky, Porterfield, Prevost, Ragain,

Rashid, Rich, Roffman, Rosen, Ross, Rusk, Salinger, Sanders, Seltzer, Schneider, Shabtai, Shannon, Sheffield, Shipley, Shomer, Silano, Sklar, Smith, Snyder, Spahr, Sydlik, Szymborska, Trommer, Twichell, Volkmer, Waters, Weems, Wilson, Zale

Review:

What strikes me now, with our nation still mired in two wars, is how much our own self-argument can come to silence us, and how we can become victims of our own narratives of despair. The poems of Come Together: Imagine Peace remind us that, though the work of peacemaking is never done, and

though we face the most powerful forces in the world, we are not alone, and our voices bear the burden of the silenced throughout the globe....The work of peacemaking, and the work of peace poetry, is at least in part to give voice to those small victories--where no blood was spilled, but lives were changed, justice was won, and peace was forged, achieved, or found. And words bring us there, to the brink of something new. Peace poetry is larger than a moral injunction against war; it is an articulation of the expanse, the horizon where we might come together. To adapt a line by the Sufi poet Rumi: "Beyond the realm of good and evil, there is a field." -from the "Introduction" by Philip Metres (September 2008)