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Songs of the Wounded: New and Selected Poems
Songs of the Wounded New and Selected Poems Author:Greg Cook Songs of the Wounded offers new poems as well as selections from his previous five books, including Untying the Tongue. The heightened consciousness through language is the route to our humanity and permits us to live in real time, as though we are reborn in each unique moment. By intuition and empathy, therefore, we enter objec... more »ts -- the culled maple tree is park 'centurion,' storm-petrels are 'flecks of prophecy,' and rock graffiti speaks boulder than beatitudes and louder than commandments. Through the energy of these objects, our collective mind becomes independent of our bodies and survives. Art -- like love -- is ultimately an act of faith.« less