While this is Chris Kirkpatrick's first children's book, his poetry has been published in such distinguished journals as Barbaric Yawp, Small Brushes, Time of Singing, Chaff, Clever Copywriting and Nourishment Notes. His other books include Learning To See From the Blind, Mixed Metaphors, and I Don't Know What To Tell You. He has received a BA in Social Science from Chapman University and is currently an academic recovery teacher working with at risk youth. He resides in San Bernardino, CA with his wife Jill and his two daughters, Vicky and Amber.
I really don't know what to tell you. Everyday life is so complex. There are multitudes of stories, infinite perspectives, and continuous moments that make everything matter. Yet somehow people put words together to make meaning of it. Poets pack mountains of meaning into prose. They make the seemingly simplest words mean more than the small space of text they occupy. Poems can trick us. they challenge us to see words and our world differently. Family. Time at home. Work. Social situations. Spirituality. Imagination. Passion and stress. Personal reflection. Everyday moments and all the "things" in them show us our perfectly imperfect (yet undeniably beautiful) humanity. The words you are about to ingest are nourishment for the mind, heart, and soul. Bon appetit.
In Learning to See from the Blind, we are reminded that life is not easy, as we all can attest. It is full of difficulties and depressions that keep us up at night; and yet we are relieved to find that in the midst of hardship there is still joy to be found in religion, in children, in love, and in forgiveness. Ultimately, these poems speak to the fact that while life is hard, sometimes it is the hard times, the times of blindness, that make it worth the living.
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This study examines U.S. policy toward the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1980s. The authors provide fresh insights into bureaucratic conflicts that were a key feature of the policy-making process and reveal both the achievements and the limits of U.S. influence on Pinochet's regime.
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