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Real Bread: Poetry Inspired by the Famine of the Moment

Calarella-wong, Lesa

 
9781939625939: Real Bread: Poetry Inspired by the Famine of the Moment
ISBN 10: 1939625939 ISBN 13: 9781939625939
Verlag: Inkwell Books LLC, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In 1994, I traveled to Africa on two separate occasions during one of the most tumultuous times in the history of that continent. My usual assignment was stateside in marketing and communications, working with volunteers and churches to raise funds and awareness for humanitarian causes. The purpose of my travel was to gain insight into the needs of the people we served, to visit projects currently sponsored by the organization, and to deliver supplies to children who had survived the massacre in Rwanda. In that capacity, I was able to witness firsthand the impact and tragedy of poverty, war, famine, landmines, and the awful genocide in Rwanda, as well as rejoice in the election and inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South Africa's first black president. The genocide in Rwanda was unique as the most horrific systematic murder of people in a 100-day span as the world stood by, watching without action and turning a blind eye to the holocaust. I am humbled and grateful for the trans-formative and sobering lessons of that journey.

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A Southern California native, Lesa Caldarella-Wong spent more than thirty years working for non-prof it organizations. She has a passion for people and the issues of social injustice, war, hunger, natural disasters, and human rights. In her work for non-prof it organizations, she has traveled throughout the world and facilitated national and international campaigns to aid victims and refugees of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the Rwandan genocide, 1998's Hurricane Mitch, and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

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Diving into these words was an exercise in bearing witness to a part of the human experience I had only read about in the newspapers. I remember reading about Rwanda. I prayed. But I was removed. Reading Real Bread was a journey into the darkest parts of humanity; haunting and harrowing, yes, but bearable and illuminating because Lesa Caldarella-Wong bore witness with love, with the eyes and heart of God as embodied within as a “woman from the West.” These poems are potent and relevant reminders for all of us today, twenty years later, of the suffering that still exists around the world...and the loving actions of the extraordinary ordinary people acting to bring light and love in the form of medicine, bread, water, kindness. I am impressed by the eloquence of the language, the depth of connection, and how Ms. Caldarella-Wong was able to convey the unbearable with such grace and dignity and respect for the country and its people.

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Diving into these words was an exercise in bearing witness to a part of the human experience I had only read about in the newspapers. I remember reading about Rwanda. I prayed. But I was removed. Reading Real Bread was a journey into the darkest parts of humanity; haunting and harrowing, yes, but bearable and illuminating because Lesa Caldarella-Wong bore witness with love, with the eyes and heart of God as embodied within as a woman from the West. These poems are potent and relevant reminders for all of us today, twenty years later, of the suffering that still exists around the world...and the loving actions of the extraordinary ordinary people acting to bring light and love in the form of medicine, bread, water, kindness. I am impressed by the eloquence of the language, the depth of connection, and how Ms. Caldarella-Wong was able to convey the unbearable with such grace and dignity and respect for the country and its people.

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Verlag
Inkwell Books LLC
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1939625939
ISBN 13 
9781939625939
Einband
Broschiert
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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