We
April Ossmann
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
We takes an unapologetically spiritual stance in bridging politicized divides, exploring conscious and unconscious prejudices with lyricism, warmth, and self-implicating humor, how we are shaped by and create our nation by how we see ourselves and others.
The poems investigate what unites us; how the personal is political, and the political is personal; changing our perceptions to heal families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion; trying to see past egos to souls, as “We” suggests in conversation with Whitman: “I celebrate my being, every atom/of myself and you, lamp and mirror/of all that is”; in a new Preamble to the Constitution; and in the feminist “Peace Hymn for the Republic.” We begins with a non-partisan vision of soul, and ends driving a rural road at dawn in “State of the Union Aubade,” both paeans to our common divinity.
Kundenbewertungen
nonpartisan, we the people, civility, soul, The Golden Rule, her story, unapologetically spiritual, the political is personal, We, understanding compassion, healing, the personal is political, bridging political divides, divine, common divinity, State of the Union, unity, make America great again