Can Poetry Halt War

<p class=ql-align-justify>Beauty is a province of poetry but more importantly it </p><p class=ql-align-justify>is a province of truth. In her latest book Meher Pestonji </p><p class=ql-align-justify>is telling us the truth. She writes as one of whom </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Wallace Stevens would call a 'necessary angel'. She has us </p><p class=ql-align-justify>confront the pain and the ugliness so we cannot help but </p><p class=ql-align-justify>empathise and motivates us to take action. Meher offers </p><p class=ql-align-justify>us poems to make us feel so we know what to think. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>- Robert Whelan Poet Laureate of Rockport Massachusettes and </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Convenor of the Rockport Poetry Festival New York.</p>