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"These poems combine the mystery of creativity with a longing for peace."

THE POETRY OF PEACE
Edited by David Krieger
Capra Press, December 2002
132 pages, $17.95

"Poetry," writes the great poet Pablo Neruda, "is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread."

This beautiful book presents the winning poems in the annual Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. It is a remarkable collection by an extraordinary group of poets. These poems find peace rooted in relationships to each other, to other living things and to the earth. They combine the mystery of creativity with a longing for peace.

FROM THE EDITOR, DAVID KRIEGER

"Peace and poetry meet and interact in mysterious and surprising ways. A poem can touch our hearts and inspire us to action. A poetic act can touch us, sometimes in even deeper ways, and compel us along the path to peace.

The poems in this book examine peace from many perspectives. They are filled with the wonder and magic of everyday life. They also express the sorrow and loss that war and violence bring….They find peace rooted in relationships to each other, to other living things and to the earth. In these poems one finds a burning desire to do more to heal wounded spirits and our wounded earth. These poems combine the mystery of creativity with a longing for peace."

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FROM THE FOREWORD BY TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS

"Peace is the act of remembering. War is the act of forgetting; otherwise, we would not repeat the horrors of human suffering over and over again.
Poetry is also an act of remembering, a gesture on behalf of what is possible.
As I write this, we are a nation at war. President George W. Bush tells us in this fight against terrorism that 'we will rid the world of evil,' that all options are on the table.' The threat of nuclear war by our own hands, not to mention the tremors of unrest felt in Pakistan and India, places all humanity in a precarious position of risk and uncertainty.
Peace requires actions of a different sort. The act of restraint. The act of listening. The act of compassion, to feel in one's body another point of view. Peace, like poetry, is an act of the imagination offering us a path toward our highest and deepest selves.
May we read each one of these poems as a prayer. May we find inspiration in their courage to speak on behalf of peace. And may we be inspired to pick up our own pens and write our way home to a more sustainable world."