From the Preface: I love the �Precedent� poems included here, for they remind us that our work includes history and models which we can learn from and adapt to our own times. These writers all take us back through Walt Whitman to Emerson�s definition of the poet�s role: �The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty,� and so a truthful �naming� and �saying� are a part of all of these beautiful poems. Denise Levertov�s poem �Life at War,� written during the Vietnam War, speaks to us immediately and directly by naming what has been lost in adopting a contemporary mindset of warfare: �our nerve filaments twitch in its presence/ day and night, / nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, / nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, / the deep intelligence living at peace would have.� For her and the poets and readers here the poem bravely confronts the world and yet moves us to imagine the peace within it and ourselves. We offer this book as part of that intention.-Larry Smith

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, c1984.

This is heartwarming and adventurous story about a teenage boy named Peter Robinson, an only child living with his widowed mother, Doris. He is more mature than boys his age and even those slightly older. He keeps pretty much to home with his mother and has many friends, both straight and gay.He suffered a great loss when his father died of cancer when Peter was just fourteen years old, and is still trying to cope with his death just a year later when this story begins. Peter has a spi

From the unique voice of Bruno Tognolini, the most beloved children’s poet in Italy today, come these 24 “rhymes of hope to shout together”: a musical rhythmic chant that gives voice to the wishes and hopes of all children. From the biggest dreams of peace, solidarity between people, the protection of nature, to the smallest and most intimate dreams, which are no less heartfelt. A perfect mixture of irony and depth, a true manifesto for a better future, which makes you want to take to the streets to shout to the stanzas to the skies.

The story of John, who, devastated at the loss of his girlfriend goes on a self-destructive rampage in the bad company of others through the less salubrious areas of London's East End before finding redemption and hope for the future.

JOHN LENNON'S LEGACY CONTINUES with Come Together: The Official John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Guide to Music and Video. This beautiful full-color book features interviews with music and songwriting tips from outstanding musicians including John Legend, The Black Eyed Peas' will.i.am, Macy Gray, The Eagles' Don Felder, and The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, with a foreword by Yoko Ono Lennon. "This is precisely the kind of project that John would have loved," says Ono. Filled with photographs and featuring a companion DVD-Rom, COME TOGETHER is part how-to, part celebrity interviews, part technological showcase, and part travelogue. It's truly an enlightening read for music aficionados, fans, students, songwriters, producers, engineers, teachers -- anyone with an interest in music.The non-profit John Lennon Educational Tour Bus is a professional mobile recording and multimedia studio outfitted with the latest in audio and video technological advances as well as traditional musical instruments. Since 1998, the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus has provided free hands-on programs to hundreds of thousands of people at high schools, colleges, Boys and Girls Clubs, music festivals, concerts, conventions and community organizations. Across America throughout the year, students work with the staff of onboard engineers to write an original song, record and mix the song, and create a music video of the song's performance - all in one day! Many celebrity recording artists work with kids on the one-of-a-kind Bus, providing music and production expertise as well as guidance and encouragement.A portion of the proceeds from this book go toward supporting the non-profit John Lennon Educational Tour Bus.

Philip Metres stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering silenced voices to building a more just world, in communities of solitude and solidarity. Gathering a decade of his writing on poetry, he widens our sense of poetry as a way of being in the world, proposing that poems can offer a permeability to marginalized voices and a shelter from the imperial noise and despair that can silence us. The Sound of Listening ranges between expansive surveys of the poetry of 9/11, Arab American poetry, documentary poetry, landscape poetry, installation poetry, and peace poetry; personal explorations of poets such as Adrienne Rich, Khalil Gibran, Lev Rubinstein, and Arseny Tarkovsky; and intimate dialogues with Randa Jarrar, Fady Joudah, and Micah Cavaleri, that illuminate Metres’s practice of listening in his 2015 work, Sand Opera.