By Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball
Genre: Activist Poetry
Available on Amazon as Paperback, http://amzn.to/SublimePlanet
Available as an e-book, http://bitly.com/EarthDayKind
ISBN: 9781482054705
Photography by Ann Howley
Proceeds from this book benefit World Wildlife Fund
Reviewed by Walter Brasch
April 22 is the 33rd annual Earth Day. The first Earth Day
involved students from almost all of America's colleges, and about 20 million
others, believed to be the largest grassroots effort in America's history. But,
there were dissenters--far too many believed that Earth Day was nothing but a
bunch of tree-hugging liberals who were getting tired of protesting the war in
VietNam. The anti-war protests did provide an organizing base, but Earth Day
has grown so much greater, and is now celebrated in virtually every country on
Earth. Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson, in their new book of poetry,
SUBLIME PLANET, have created an excellent way to celebrate our planet. In their
poems you can learn about a diversity that makes our environment and its people
worth keeping. There's Van Gogh, Cassini, and Greek school girls; there's
poppies and giraffes, dragons, sea horses, seagulls, and sand. There's the
forests and the rivers. Dig deep into each poem and you'll better understand
why we need to protect our planet and its environment. More important, you'll
learn that all people, animals and plants have a place, and to destroy any one
is to destroy us all. Read it. Understand it. And do something positive to
preserve and improve what we are blessed with.
Reviewed by Walter M. Brasch, Ph.D., is an award-winning
syndicated columnist , radio commentator, and the author of 17 books. His
latest is Fracking
Pennsylvania, an in-depth investigation into the effects of fracking
upon the environment, health, and worker safety. He also looks into the
economics and political corruption within this controversial practice.
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