Poets on Peace #12

<BODY BGCOLOR="#444444" TEXT="#080000" LINK="#FFFFFF" ALINK="#000400" VLINK="#FFFFFF"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#CC3300" FACE="Arial" ><B>FootHills Publishing</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFCC99" FACE="Arial" >   </FONT> |   <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FootHills Publishing"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id135.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="2006 Books"><U>2006 Books</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Czarnecki"><U>Czarnecki</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id137.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Dire Elegies"><U>The Dire Elegies</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id127.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="POP 10"><U>POP 10</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Poets on Peace 11"><U>Poets on Peace #11</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 56, 57, 58"><U>SF 56, 57, 58</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id129.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 59, 60, 61"><U>SF 59, 60, 61</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id134.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SF 62, 63"><U>SF 62, 63</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id103.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lowenstein"><U>Lowenstein</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Janus"><U>Janus</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id110.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Holley"><U>Holley</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id120.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Minar"><U>Minar</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id122.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Kennedy"><U>Kennedy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Emorine"><U>Emorine</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id128.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stowell"><U>Stowell</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id136.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jackson"><U>Jackson</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id138.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mullen"><U>Mullen</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coon AWAY"><U>Coon AWAY</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id140.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Curry"><U>Curry</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id141.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Evans"><U>Evans</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hallowell"><U>Hallowell</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id143.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guruianu"><U>Guruianu</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bauer"><U>Bauer</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id145.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gilman"><U>Gilman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id146.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Susquehanna Watershed Antholgy"><U>Susquehanna Watershed Antholgy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id147.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Leichner"><U>Leichner</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id148.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nixon"><U>Nixon</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id149.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bruce Bennett"><U>Bruce Bennett</U></A>   |   <B>Poets on Peace #12</B>   |   <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>Ordering by Mail</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact FHP"><U>Contact FHP</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Poets on Peace #12 - In the Greenwood World - Christine Gelineau</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="4102cda0.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="474" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>“Christine Gelineau's remarkable book reveals an intelligence deeply engaged with the world. The moral compass that guides these poems is matched by their attention to aesthetics; the poet's craft is equal to her vision.  She skillfully balances elegy with protest, and argues against all that which devalues life and promotes violence and war.”</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Maria Mazziotti Gillan</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>To my ear, this collection reproduces something of the stuttering our heart feels in the face of the world as we find it---the outrage, exasperation, despair . . . and the irrepressible hope that somehow we as a species can do better . . . will do better . . .</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Christine Gelineau</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Christine Gelineau is the author of </B><I><B>Remorseless Loyalty</B></I><B>, from Ashland Poetry Press (2006), and </B><I><B>North American Song Line</B></I><B>, from FootHills Publishing (2001). She has just completed editing French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets, due out from Louisiana Literature Press in early 2007. Gelineau lives with her husband on a farm in upstate New York. She teaches at Binghamton University, where she is Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program, and she also teaches in the low-residency MA program at Wilkes University. </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <I>"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of a man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."</I></div> <div>                                          --John F. Kennedy</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Green Road </B></div> <bR> <div> Over Killary Harbor the sharp-sloped hills </div> <div> rise steeply out of the drowned valley, </div> <div> a grass-softened chalice of stone </div> <div> that even on this sunny day collects </div> <div> and cups mist rising from the water's surface:</div> <bR> <div> a yielding presence we ride through </div> <div> on rented horses, stolid Irish draughts</div> <div> who carry us slack-reined </div> <div> along “the green road,” a public </div> <div> works project the British dreamed up </div> <div> in the famine year of 1848.  </div> <bR> <div> Immaculate capitalists, the Brits</div> <div> were loath to dole out money</div> <div> the starving hadn't earned and so </div> <div> their humanitarian relief put </div> <div> malnourished men to body-breaking work </div> <bR> <div> constructing roads that led only</div> <div> to the green of nature, or webs </div> <div> of stone walls whose sole purpose </div> <div> was the pay check that could not </div> <div> buy food enough to restore even </div> <div> the energy it cost to earn it, </div> <bR> <div> let alone to feed the wasted, </div> <div> waiting children, mouths stained green </div> <div> with grass,  the verdant grass of Ireland,</div> <div> flourishing outside the property lines</div> <div> like an offering, unclaimed, lush</div> <div> and incapable of sustaining them.   </div> <div>  </div> <div> When men died out on the works, </div> <div> there could be no thought </div> <div> of carrying them home. Their fellows</div> <bR> <bR> <div> spared precious effort just to bury them</div> <div> where they fell, unshrouded, unmarked</div> <div> beside the futile road or wall.</div> <bR> <div> Long years later, the grass abides   </div> <div> and these roads remain unforgotten </div> <div> elegies carrying us deep</div> <div> into the past's persistence, </div> <div> a hymn we ride </div> <div> into the silver rain.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  </div> <div> Hand-stitched paperbook with spine.</div> <div> Eight Dollars  $8.00 </div> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-36-9</div> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  In the Greenwood World  ON-LINE</div> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="In the Greenwood World"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="06-POP12"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="8.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>       <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id151.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering by Mail"><U>To order through mail click here</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Thank you for your support! </B></div> </BODY>