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Visit our all new poetry website www.bayeuxpoetry.com
Edited by: Judith R. Robinson, Joan E. Bauer & Sankar Roy
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WINNER OF THE 2006 SKIPPING STONES HONOR AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST POETRY BOOKS OF 2005
- MONSERRAT REVIEW
AMONG NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2005 PICKS
- SMALL PRESS REVIEW
- a stunning collection of work by an international group of poets.
In the aftermath of the tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004, the world came together in an extraordinary outpouring of compassion and concern.
Trying to come to terms with this cruelest of nature’s acts, here is a deeply moving collection of poems by a distinguished group of poets from all over the world. Gathered in this volume is the offering of 80 poets, chosen from the work of hundreds who sent poetry to share in this time of grief and questioning.
As Joseph Bruchac, poet and storyteller, so eloquently states in his introduction to the collection -
“These poems are … gifts. A poem can lift a heart, inspire a spirit, begin the purging of grief, reach out to those who feel lost or forsaken. The gift of spirit represented here is part of a circle of hearts and minds as open as a hand reached out.”
Our poets come from the United States, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Canada, Norway, Italy, and New Zealand. Some of their voices may be heard on www.bayeuxpoetry.com and www.poetsforhumanity.com
Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and award-winning poet. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she was editor of Living Inland, 1989, Bennington Press; author of The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories, 1996, Aegina Press. She is poetry editor of Signatures, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, 2001 and 2003, 2005, ALL/Ring Road Press at Carnegie Mellon University. She is editor of Only the Sea Keeps.
Joan E. Bauer, poet, teacher and counselor, grew up in Los Angeles, was educated at UCLA and UC Berkeley. For some years she taught high school English and journalism in public and independent schools, and now divides her time between Pittsburgh, PA, and Laguna Beach, CA. She has a long-time interest in international relief and development issues. She is associate editor of Only the Sea Keeps.
Sankar Roy is an engineer, MBA, web artist, poet, an immigrant from India, translator of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land into the Bengali language. Sankar has completed two book-length manuscripts of poetry. He is currently working on his book-length autobiographical poem, The New Book of Genesis, and translating Allen Ginsberg and Derek Walcott to Bengali. Mr. Roy founded the original website on which some of these poems first appeared, and is associate editor of Only the Sea Keeps.
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Bayeux Arts gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Government of Canada through The Book Publishing Industry Development Program. Copyright © 2007 Bayeux Arts