In the Arms of Words

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This requiem becomes an opportunity for examinations, interpretations and transformations in startlingly effective ways. </div> <bR> <div>            - Michael Hartnett, Poetry Editor for <I>Confrontation</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> These poems speak eloquently of the sea's power to create and to destroy. Many poems here are quiet testimonials to survival, others roar: <I>I am here!</I></div> <bR> <div>   -Theresa Williams, author of<I> The Secret of Hurricanes, a novel</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> In this collection, a wide variety of vivid, poetic voices speak to an unspeakable tragedy, while simultaneously offering readers much-needed insight into the volatile mysteries of human nature and Mother Nature. </div> <div>    </div> <div> - Janice Eidus, author, <I>The Celibacy Club</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> An overwhelming event merits an overwhelming response. And we find it here in this gathering of voices that fills in the silence after a devastation left the world at a loss for words.</div> <div>  </div> <div>                  - Rigoberto González, author, Skin Preserve Us</div> <bR> <div> <B>Contents</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="839" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 1290 ><NOBR><div> Foreword by Fatima Shahnaz              </div> <bR> <div> Law of the Ocean</div> <div>      <I>Karla Linn Merrifield</I>                 </div> <div> The Upside Down River</div> <div>      <I>Tad Wojnicki</I>                   </div> <div> January 1, 2005</div> <div>      <I>Brett Axel</I>                   </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Jörgen Johansson</I>                    </div> <div> Grace</div> <div>      <I>Diane Ackerman</I>                    </div> <div> Spring</div> <div>      <I>David Oliveira</I>                    </div> <div> She Wrote</div> <div>      <I>Lois P. Jones</I>                    </div> <div> daughter sees blemish</div> <div>      <I>Ray Craig</I>                         </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Shin Yu Pai</I>                    </div> <div> After the Wave, Another: Nam Jai</div> <div>      <I>Laurie Klein</I>                    </div> <div> So You Will Not Ask God Why</div> <div>      <I>Chelle Miko</I>                    </div> <div> The Visible Ones "Eat Leaves"</div> <div>      <I>Barbara Tomaine</I>                    </div> <div> Sensing Foreignness</div> <div>      <I>Mary Strong Jackson</I>                    </div> <div> ellipses in the carpet</div> <div>      <I>James Warner</I>                    </div> <div> Hollow Bones</div> <div>      <I>Ren</I><I>é</I><I>e Roehl</I>                    </div> <div> What You Will Believe</div> <div>      <I>Irene O'Garden</I>                    </div> <div> dinosaurs</div> <div>      <I>Ameena Mayer</I>                    </div> <div> Stone</div> <div>      <I>Lucy Anderton</I>                    </div> <div> Swim (Plivam)</div> <div>      <I>Natasa Bozic Grojic</I>                    </div> <div> The Second, Vacation</div> <div>      <I>Frank Simone</I>                    </div> <div> Shoulders</div> <div>      <I>Naomi Shihab Nye</I>                    </div> <div> On the Path to Jericho</div> <div>      <I>Helen Losse</I>                    </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Andrew Riutta</I>                    </div> <div> `City of the Sea'</div> <div>      <I>Fatima Shahnaz</I>                    </div> <div> Pain is God's Love</div> <div>      <I>Maria Alexander</I>                    </div> <div> Floater</div> <div>      <I>Gary Lehmann</I>                    </div> <div> Returning</div> <div>      <I>Katherine James</I>                    </div> <div> Walking Through Fallen Berries</div> <div>      <I>Tara L. Masih</I>                    </div> <div> Leaving</div> <div>      <I>David Chorlton</I>                    </div> <div> post-diluvian</div> <div>      <I>Steve Dalachinsky</I>                    </div> <div> By The Sky Rain Black Tears </div> <div> (Del Cielo Llueven </div> <div>      Lágrimas Negras)</div> <div>      <I>Iris P</I><I>é</I><I>rez Ulloa</I>                   </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="271"><div> Satellite</div> <div>      <I>MaryJo Martin</I>                    </div> <div> The Great Quake of Sumatra, 2004</div> <div>      <I>Valery Oisteanu</I> </div> <div> Nam Jai</div> <div>      <I>Nick Carbo</I>                    </div> <div> Whatever the Sea</div> <div>      <I>Anjana Basu</I>                    </div> <div> Heart</div> <div>      <I>Sparrow</I>                         </div> <div> the many  the few</div> <div>      <I>Marcielle Brandler</I>                    </div> <div> The Dark Continent</div> <div>      <I>Teresa White</I>                    </div> <div> Waterloo Village</div> <div>      <I>Patricia Roth Schwartz</I>               </div> <div> The Women Who Survived</div> <div>      <I>H.T. Harrison</I>                    </div> <div> Plaint</div> <div>      <I>Aleda Shirley</I>                    </div> <div>       The Last Wave</div> <div>      <I>Michael Hillmer</I>                    </div> <div> These Bones Remember</div> <div>      <I>Anthony Russell White</I>               </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Jason Sanford Brown</I>                    </div> <div> Praying to the Gods</div> <div>      <I>Thaddeus Rutkowski</I>               </div> <div> Beyond This Breath</div> <div>      <I>Victory Lee Schouten</I>                    </div> <div> Moving to Higher Ground</div> <div>      <I>Colette Jonopulos</I>                    </div> <div> The Wall of Water</div> <div>      <I>Lisa Ezzard</I>                    </div> <div> Miracle </div> <div>      <I>Roberta Gould</I>                    </div> <div> The Slowly Disappearing Elephant in the Room</div> <div>      <I>Alan Semerdjian</I>                    </div> <div> Flooding Heaven</div> <div>      <I>Kirpal Gordon</I>                    </div> <div> Something for the New Year</div> <div>      <I>Donald Lev</I>                    </div> <div> You See How It Happened</div> <div>      <I>Laura Foley</I>                    </div> <div> Surrender</div> <div>      <I>Scott Wiggerman</I>  The Moon on the Tsunami</div> <div>      <I>Kate Gray</I>                         </div> <div> Gathering in the North Wind</div> <div>      <I>Patricia Wellingham-Jones</I>               </div> <div> Come Here. Take Heart</div> <div>      <I>Verandah Porche</I>                    </div> <div> Tsunami </div> <div>      <I>Carl Stilwell</I>                    </div> <div> total eclipse, new year: 2005</div> <div>      <I>Eve Packer</I>                    </div> <div> What's Left</div> <div>      <I>Taylor Graham</I>                    </div> <div> I've Come Down From the Peak</div> <div>      <I>Roger Aplon</I>                    </div> <div> Shadows of Melancholy</div> <div>      <I>Susan Norton</I>                    </div> <div> Wake Up, Little Sister</div> <div>      <I>Ruth Knafo Setton</I> </div> <div> Curve</div> <div>      <I>R.M. Engelhardt</I>                    </div> <bR> <div>                                               </div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="271"><div> The Orphans of Tangshan</div> <div>      <I>Colette Inez</I></div> <div> On Water</div> <div>      <I>Rayn Roberts</I>     aftermath</div> <div>      <I>Michaela A. Gabriel</I>                    </div> <div> A Dirge for Two-Hundred Thousand: </div> <div>      For the Tsunami Victims, 2005</div> <div>      <I>Ravi Shankar</I>                    </div> <div> White Diamonds</div> <div>      <I>Prasenjit Maiti</I>                    </div> <div> In the Arms of Water</div> <div>      <I>Sharon Olinka</I>                    </div> <div> Disaster Relief</div> <div>      <I>John Gorman</I>                    </div> <div> Follow the Directions on Page 226</div> <div>      <I>Jennifer Hill-Kaucher</I>                    </div> <div> "Pass the Sugar"</div> <div>      <I>Gregory Miller</I>                    </div> <div> The Moon Will Claim Me</div> <div>      <I>Diane di Prima</I>                    </div> <div> While You Were Sleeping</div> <div>      <I>George Wallace</I>                    </div> <div> Hush</div> <div>      <I>Katherine Tracy</I>                    </div> <div> Bells for Mindfulness</div> <div>      <I>Thomas J. Baier</I>                    </div> <div> For You</div> <div>      <I>Craig Czury</I>                    </div> <div> Not Our Sea     </div> <div>      <I>Jennifer Browne</I>                    </div> <div> An Argument With Memory</div> <div>      <I>Marge Piercy</I>                    </div> <div> Kaira Peace</div> <div>      <I>Sung to Bob Holman by Papa Susso</I>          </div> <div> unholy waters</div> <div>      <I>Gerald Schwartz</I>                    </div> <div> It Was Apparent to the Orphans     </div> <div>      <I>Amy Ouzoonian</I>                    </div> <div> The Stream</div> <div>      <I>Dale Edmands</I>                    </div> <div> We Were On a Train and the Train Screeched</div> <div>      <I>Lyn Lifshin</I>                    </div> <div> Aftermath</div> <div>      <I>Selene Steese</I>                    </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Juanito Escareal</I>                    </div> <div> Crying in My Heart</div> <div>      <I>Fofana M.L.</I>                    </div> <div> Basket of Figs</div> <div>      <I>Ellen Bass</I>                    </div> <div> Untitled</div> <div>      <I>Denis Emorine </I></div> <div> <I>     translated by Pradip Choudhuri</I>               </div> <div> Excerpts from "Justice Because"</div> <div>      <I>Jes</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Garamond" ><I>ú</I></FONT><I>s Papoleto Mel</I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Garamond" ><I>é</I></FONT><I>ndez</I>               </div> <div> Clear White Stream</div> <div>      <I>Marilyn Chin</I>                    </div> <div> Salomon Mercado</div> <div>      <I>Nancy Mercado</I>                    </div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief</B></div> <bR> <div> If you would like to purchase a copy of <I>In the Arms of Words: Poems for Tsunami Relief</I> </div> <div> please read the information below and check which edition you would like to purchase.</div> <bR> <div> Sincerely,</div> <bR> <div> Amy Ouzoonian, Editor</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>$30.00 Foothills publishing hand-sewn special limited print edition (numbered and </B></div> <div> <B>     signed by editor: Amy Ouzoonian -- regular price). 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