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 DedicationTo those who know:
that the desert flowers will bloom when the oil rigs are silent; that trees will again stand tall over the ashes of forgotten wars; that no one can take away the sunrise or the smells of spring. To those: who walk away on the earth.... |
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the world seems a more freighting place than before," Kavanaugh writes
in his introduction. Prophets speak ominously of society's
doom. It is as it our planet is finally out of fuel and will
dissolve in its own anxiety." Kavanaugh wrote the poems in this collection in reaction to those feelings of gloom and anxiety. "I do not focus on the world's despair," he says. "I am forever renewed by spring, splashing over granite rocks or a cautious deer emerging into twilight. I know then that I will survive all my personal fears and economic disasters, that I will realize my finest dreams." Kavanaugh's poems are not meant to provide a guidebook or a philosophy of life. They are instead, as he writes, "the hand of a friend, the voice and face of one who lives in the same troubled, anxious world as do you, who shares the same guilt and fears. It is an effort to rise above Asian wars and Arab Oil, to look beyond inflation and even death, while staring them in the face, to laugh frequently amid occasional tears. It is, above all, to Walk Easy On The Earth." Product Details
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