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What does it take for a nation to heal? In The Peace Pole, Andrew Benson Greene — who wrote these poems during Sierra Leone’s war years — offers a timeless collection of verse on war, peace, Ebola, and hope.
Greene’s poems are a creative reflection of personal experience lived through the ravages of an eleven-year civil war and the devastation of the Ebola epidemic. Yet this is not a book of despair: it is a testament to the stubborn persistence of hope, and to poetry’s power to witness and to heal.
For poetry readers — verse from the front lines of the human spirit. Greene wrote these poems while living through history — not after — giving them an urgency that retrospect cannot fake. From war to Ebola to fragile peace, he witnesses it all with a poet’s eye and a survivor’s heart. Poetry as witness, poetry as healing.
What does it take for a nation to heal? In The Peace Pole, Andrew Benson Greene — who wrote these poems during Sierra Leone’s war years — offers a timeless collection of verse on war, peace, Ebola, and hope.
Greene’s poems are a creative reflection of personal experience lived through the ravages of an eleven-year civil war and the devastation of the Ebola epidemic. Yet this is not a book of despair: it is a testament to resilience, to the stubborn belief that peace can prevail even where it seems impossible.
From haunting images of conflict to tender portraits of ordinary Sierra Leoneans rebuilding their lives, these poems carry the reader through darkness toward light. Greene writes as both witness and healer, giving voice to a country’s pain and its extraordinary capacity for hope.
Proceeds from the book support charitable work, making every purchase a small act of solidarity. The Peace Pole is essential reading for poetry lovers, students of African history, and anyone who believes in the power of words to mend what war has broken. May peace prevail on earth.
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