Portents & Promises: Echoes of Politics, People, and Places by Estrella Besinga Sybinsky

"Portents and Promises: Echoes of Politics, People, and Places is a collection of free verse that encourages reflection and thought. After the devastating attack on the United States on September 11, 2001 - the magnitude of suffering compels humanity to address deeper issues about the human condition. The response of Americans and the majority of the world to the tragedy, highlights the victory of love, of compassion, of caring, of unity and camaraderie - common human traits transcending national boundaries. On the other hand, the mass murder of innocent thousands focus on the acute degree of estrangement, of alienation, "man’s inhumanity to man," urgently felt by disconnected segments of our world’s population. Good over evil, hope over despair, our lives replete with the bliss and the burden of existence. The potential to achieve virtue over vice continually challenges human beings to keep searching for the truth - which the author hopes lies somewhere in the comfortable shade of gray, the moderate, prudent middle ground.

The book is about people and places, about ideas and political themes. The author shares the notion that through written and verbal discourse about ideas, emotions, spirituality, philosophy, politics and the ultimate purpose of political activity, people can find meaning and arrive at the civilized political community. When thought and passion strikes the heart and fills the mind, then writing, becomes the pathway out of uncertainty, and into the light." -Excerpts from the publisher's website.

Publisher : AuthorHouse (7 May 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 108 pages
ISBN-10 : 075968915-6
ISBN-13 : 978-07-5-968915-2
Item Weight : 171 g
Dimensions : 15.24 x 0.66 x 22.86 cm


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