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Peace Maps by Karen K. Lewis

$14.99

 

“Poets are like cartographers” says Karen K. Lewis in Peace Maps. Through landscapes plagued by violence, drought and plastic trash, “fragments of poems remain, like tourniquets … to mend our fatal hemorrhage/ of despair.” She maps each poem to a specific place on earth, not only with discreet latitude and longitude coordinates, but also with love for the beings, human, animal and vegetable, that make a home there, and for the land itself.

–Maureen Eppstein, author of Earthward

 

“Humane and stirring, Karen Lewis‘s Peace Maps is a stunning cartography of the heart, charting new realms of loss and joy. Brave, honest, and clear, these vistas show us where we need to go.”

–Lisa Locascio, author of Open Me

 

 

 

 

Peace Maps

by Karen K. Lewis

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-252-8

2020

Charting themes of globalization, cultural endurance, motherhood, solitude, inherited trauma, deep ecology, love, loss, and hope, the poems in Peace Maps invite readers on trails of actuality and possibility.

Karen K. Lewis lives in rural Northern California between the forest and the sea. She holds an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles and has traveled widely. Karen leads workshops with California Poets in the Schools and is a former Director of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. Her poems explore territory of physical and imaginary geographies, to map historical and personal moments of solitude, motherhood, loss, endurance, desire, surrender.

 

 

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