War Bonds

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>War Bonds</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a book of poems about survival in the face of conflict from Iraq and Afghanistan to #BlackLivesMatter the war in Ambazonia and Cameroon and gang violence in California's Central Valley. The book jumps back in time 100 years to the archive of a Chicago pianist and painter Edna Cookingham who worked with the YMCA in France to entertain the troops at the end of WWI. Her</span><span style=color: rgba(16 18 20 1)> letters telegrams diary photographs and war papers serve as source material for these poems. W</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>hile Europe may have experienced demobilization and a peace process in 1919 the echoes of that conflict continue to be felt around the world binding us still. The book explores</span><span style=color: rgba(16 18 20 1)> how we move forward - bound together - after conflict violence terror or mass trauma.</span></p>