Peace Maps - Lewis, Karen K.
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Peace Maps explores real and imaginary terrain at the intersection of ecology and devastation. From Chaco Canyon to Chernobyl, Beirut to Zuma, the poet excavates artifacts and elements to map themes of love, loss, motherhood, and healing. Sensory natural images take root and grow beneath daily lives-offering hope, heart, and glimmers of peace. The poet Karen Lewis engages with the environment in ways that probe the current moment where reality touches imagination. Poems connect her personal journeys through love, loss, motherhood, and solitude with a complicated terrain of war, peace, and…mehr

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Peace Maps explores real and imaginary terrain at the intersection of ecology and devastation. From Chaco Canyon to Chernobyl, Beirut to Zuma, the poet excavates artifacts and elements to map themes of love, loss, motherhood, and healing. Sensory natural images take root and grow beneath daily lives-offering hope, heart, and glimmers of peace. The poet Karen Lewis engages with the environment in ways that probe the current moment where reality touches imagination. Poems connect her personal journeys through love, loss, motherhood, and solitude with a complicated terrain of war, peace, and places in-between. In this era of increasing globalization, these poems argue for particular connections to particular places. "Desolation Wilderness" brings readers to a mountain region accessed only by foot. "Sian Ka'an Biosphere" (a ghazal) excavates tons of ocean plastics washing ashore. "Painted Cave" traces a new mother's connections with the unceded indigenous land where she lives, her own ancestors, her husband's war trauma, and her newborn infant. "Sappho's Island" celebrates silences, spaces and the concept of erasure. "Prayer Beads" is a praise-song for Baghdad, a city that is the cradle of civilization and a contemporary war zone. Because poetry cannot always fit into lines, "Peace Summit" creates a visual ascent to a place of balance and duality. "Tunis" celebrates the pulse of women demonstrating during the Jasmine Revolution, while "Place of Echoes" deciphers what remains of a ruined Mayan temple. As a collection of poetic cartography-and a reflection of how one woman navigates a privileged life through an often-murky lens-Peace Maps faces the future without easy answers. The poems here invite readers to risk their own imaginative journeys through whatever challenging times they may face, wherever in the world they may be.
Autorenporträt
Karen K. Lewis writes of nature, war, motherhood, and global culture. Ms. Lewis' poetry, fiction, and essays appear in Iron Horse, Hip Mama, Weave, Literary Mama, Drumvoices, 7x7.la, and Instant City. She's written cultural geography pieces for young readers in Cricket Media magazines. Her work appears in anthologies including: Sunshine Noir; Six Words About Work; Weird Parenting Wins; Mothering Through the Darkness; Mamas and Papas; San Diego Poetry Annual 2020; Women Artists Datebook 2021. One of her main interests is leading creative workshops for writers of all ages, focused on the imaginative process. She is a seven-time California Arts Council - Artists in Schools grantee, and works closely with California Poets in the Schools and the Arts Council of Mendocino County in curriculum development. Karen Lewis is an alumna of: Antioch Los Angeles (MFA) and Stanford University (BA). Ms. Lewis also attended Mount Holyoke College and U.C.L.A.