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Peace, peace they say

By Martine van Bijlert
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By Martine van Bijlert
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In this collection of poems that "refused to sound upbeat," Martine van Bijlert confronts the dissonance of writing about peace "while the world around us bucked and roiled." Fuelled by "memories of aftermath and foreboding" and a stubborn insistence not to call peace what isn't, the poems keep returning to the "messy work / of hoping for a miracle / while wading through / the mud of trying." Van Bijlert's refusal to sugarcoat either war or peace infuses the poems with raw power and emotion...

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Current Affairs & PoliticsDiplomacy & International RelationsPeace Studies