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Poetry. Anthology. Edited by Ann Smith, Larry Smith, and Philip Metres. With an Introduction by Philip Metres. A grand collection of poetry (seventy poets both past and contemporary) written against war and for peace: poems that sustain us with their vision. "Peace poetry is larger than a moral injunction against war; it is an articulation of the expanse, the horizon where we are one. To adapt a line by the Sufi poet Rumi: beyond the realm of good and evil, there is a field"--from the Introduction by Philip Metres. COME TOGETHER: IMAGINE PEACE was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award 2009.

Preface by Larry and Ann Smith 13
Introduction by Philip Metres
Some Precedents 25
Some say a host of ships++ 26
As I Ponder+d in Silence+ 26
Conscientious Objector+ 27
Waiting for the Barbarians+ 29
Creation+ 30
August 22 , 1939+ 83
The Conscientious Objector+ 34
Fall 1961+ 35
For No Clear Reason+ 35
Poem 36
At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border+ 36
Watching the Jet Planes Dive+ 37
Peace Walk+ 37
Making Peace+ 38
The Altars in the Street+ 39
A Litany for Survival+ 42
The Bombing of Baghdad+ 45
Wildpeace+ 46
The Story So Far: Poems of Witness & Elegy 51
The Story So Far+ 52
Requiem for the Buddhas of Bamiyan+ 53
The End and the Beginning+ 55
At the Museum of Archeology+ 56
Willow+ 57
Bones of a Crow+ 58
E Mail Message+ 59
True Peace+ * 6 * 61
Why I Wrote Out by Hand Ronald Johnson+s The Book of the Green Man on an Autumn Evening in 1970+ 63
Because One Is Always Forgotten+ 64
Bosnian Love Poem+ 64
Intelligent War Machine+ 65
Ghazal: The Footbridge Over the Somes+ 65
911+ 66
On a Sign Announcing: Expanding Arlington National Cemetery+ 68
History+
Call and Answer: Poems of Exhortation & Action 71
Call and Answer+ 71
(The Truth)+ 74
Populist Manifesto No. 1+ 77
Federal Building+ 78
Stupid Meditation on Peace+ 80
The God of the Weather-Beaten Face+ 82
July 4 , 2008+ 82
Passive Resistance+ 84
Victory+ 85
My Test Market+ 86
Spring 1971 Washington D.C.+ 87
The People Who Pass By+ 88
The Fountain+ 89
Maya Weiss Organizes an Anti-War Rally in January 2007+ 90
Her Favorite Somali Fable Told to Her by Her Grandmother+ 92
Reincarnation of the Peace Sign+
Healing the Breach: Poems of Reconciliation 95
Christmas Soccer Game+ 96
Jerusalem+ * 7 * 97
On the Way Home: A Prayer for the Road+ 99
The Victory of Beit Jalla+ 100
Lotem Abdel Shafi+ 101
Uncle Charley+ 101
We Need a War+ 102
Teacups in the Air+ 103
Making Peace in Jerusalem+ 103
At the State Correctional Facility+ 104
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From "Creation" by Kenneth Patchen Any person who loves another person, Wherever in the world, is with us in this room- Even though there are battlefields.

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