<p>Poetry. 7,000 SPARROWS is a meditative long poem addressed to Rafał Lemkin, the Polish-born linguist and lawyer who gave name to the crime of "genocide" and assured its irrevocable place in the framework of international law. Divided into seven parts, the poem examines genocide both as a historical act and a linguistic concept, encompassing voices from the perpetrators, victims and bystanders of past genocides. More than 50 years after Lemkin's death ended his unceasing effort to prevent the reoccurrence of humanity's greatest crime, 7,000 SPARROWS resurrects the questions that his life strove to answer, the primary one being: Is it possible for language to preserve our humanity in the midst of its annihilation?</p>

7,000 Sparrows

Literature & Fiction

Taylor, Duffie

Poetry

Groundhog Poetry Press LLC

<p>Poetry. SOUTH is a book that defies description. It is not a book of fiction. It is not a book of history or mythology. It is not a book of poetic prose. If W.J.'s Cash's book The Mind of the South were to marry Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major, SOUTH would not have a replica but a kinsman in its ambition to imaginatively investigate the region's place within America's collective consciousness. But even that descriptor falls shy of the mark because, for the book, America is not a place but an ideal that dwells deep in the human soul and psyche, irrespective of geographical coordinates. As does the South, for in every human collective there exists a place, a backwards, errant, boiling netherworld, where fallen Gods linger like devils, and dark estranged desires wrestle and betray each other for want of hope. But it is hope that makes this world, infusing its every prodigal aspect with heart and hilarity, pretty lies and the fundamental redemptive truth that union with God and another exists as much here as in any home, any elsewhere we find ourselves.</p>

South

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7,000 Sparrows

South