A Chorus For Peace
2002
(summary on the back of the book)
Women poets from around the world--including several countries in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, as well as Russia, Cuba, and the USA--are gathered here to raise their voices together, to speak out against violence and its calamitous effect upon the human soul. Yet there is also a thread of resilience here, an undercurrent of hope that points to the human ability to move on, to build a new life out of a shattered past. Each poem addresses difficult issues concerning conflict and the lives of women...Together, these works reveal a deep consciousness of both the effects of violence and the human ability to move forward.
(review from Booklist Magazine)
Because women are so often the innocent victims of violence; because women mourn their men who are killed in wars and mayhem; and because women are most often the ones who survive to care for others, their perspective on bloodshed is different than that of men, as is their vision of peace...Global in its gifted contributors (from Jerusalem to Rwanda to Hiroshima) and universal in its visions, this exceptional anthology of probity and hope is both timeless and timely...