No Room Save in the Heart Poetry and Prose on Reverence for Life Animals Nature Humankind Ann Cottrell Free
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Selections in this beautifully illustrated and presented book reflect moments of deep sorrow and bright joy over the animal, nature and human condition.
The author bears witness in these poems and brief essays to irreverence for life as she has done - in a different writing style - in newspaper and magazine articles, other books and testimony before legislative bodies. She brings new vision to the commonplace. Controlled and compelling, she speaks the language of the heart, where most meaningful action begins.
The book is divided into five sections "The House of Life," "Sunlight Still in His Eyes," "The Quality of Mercy," "Joy to the World," and "The Ways of Love."
What others have said about this book
"The power of this book lies in the stark contrast between the beauty of the natural world and the often grim results of our human stewardship. Images conjured up on one page bring a smile to the heart, those on the next, hurt...This is a thought-provoking book that will leave a lasting impression with those who read it." - Dr. Jane Goodall, Director Gombe Stream Research Center, Tanzania
"Yours is a moving and useful book. Thanks for a fine blow in a good cause." - May Sarton, Author and Poet
"It is so articulate that the very pages seem to shimmer. It is a book to keep and re-read and tell others about." - John Gleiber, Animal Welfare Institute Quarterly
"This is a book of wonder, suffering, joy and sorrow; a book about communion with nature...It awakens the heart of compassion." - Dr. Michael W. Fox, Humane Society of the United States
" Those who feel a kinship and tenderness for all living things will not read her words without tears." - Lois Stevenson, the Newark Sunday Star Ledger
No Room Save in the Heart Poetry and Prose on Reverence for Life Animals Nature Humankind Ann Cottrell Free
I was expecting warm and fuzzy poems and prose about animals, but this isn't warm and fuzzy. My fault for having my own expectations about the book.Product details
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No Room Save in the Heart Poetry and Prose on Reverence for Life Animals Nature Humankind Ann Cottrell Free Reviews
Ann Free is a wonderful writer. The poems and prose in this collection will make you think intensely about the world around you--and to see it more clearly than you did before. This is a book you will want to read over and over again.
There's something profound seeking expression in even the simplest of the themes in this collection, which deals primarily with animals and nature. Ann Cottrell Free's strong personality was reflected in her verse. No dreamer, her approach was pragmatic and direct, and her style was crisp and modern. If she erred in numbering her words, it was on the side of trying to say too much in too few syllables. A Washington, D.C. journalist for many years (which probably explains her terse style of writing), Free was also the author/editor of the book ANIMALS, NATURE AND ALBERT SCHWEiTZER, and spent many years campaigning for federal animal protective legislation. Free saw her poetry as a possible tool for reform--not just as an emotional or spiritual articulation.
Though its popularity with the masses waxes and wanes like other art forms, poetry has probably had more of a cultural influence than is generally recognized. Like music, poetry has a way of penetrating the psychological barriers we start erecting at an early age to protect our inner selves from realities we feel powerless to change.
Hoping that life would imitate her art, Ann Cottrell Free imbued it with love. The poems in the first section of the book--some of which were written in her childhood--testify to a lifetime of gentle feelings for the earth. Reading it, one can almost picture the poet as a little girl sitting joyously in a mud puddle, reverently rubbing the wet dirt and sensing her connectedness to the soil
Up the rutted mountain road
The spirits scrambled,
Reaching for God's Heaven,
Sought since birth--
But longing, too, for their home on earth.
The second section shifts into a tone of controlled anger. One can share the confusion of a hunted fox, the anguish if a fawn whose mother she sees pierced by an arrow. Free took to task the "ladies in fur coats," and tells the story of a "meek black bull" tortured by clowns at a special bullfight for Spanish children. A lost dog, afraid of his would-be rescuer, flees into an icy night. Into the laboratory she takes us to listen to the pacing of a stir-crazy dog and the moans of poisoned hounds. And we travel to the slaughterhouse with a pig who prays to enter an endless dream, "never waking to live my life again."
The book is beautifully illustrated with drawings of animals, some of which were copied from medieval tapestries. The book belongs in the library of every poetry-loving animal advocate, and would make a fine gift for any friend or relative who appreciates good verse.
I was expecting warm and fuzzy poems and prose about animals, but this isn't warm and fuzzy. My fault for having my own expectations about the book.
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