We Speak Crisis Here, by Violet White
Author: Violet White. Review by Voirrey Faragher
This small pamphlet of poems is remarkable. I commend it to any Friend who feels deeply the wounds we witness and experience in the world. White speaks from the heart of the intense suffering in our world, and of unbearable and unthinkable atrocities. She lays them before us in poetic form. We cannot look away, cannot avert our eyes from the tragedies which unfold before us. Try ‘Ears to hear’: ‘If you listened / to the keening of the Earth / you would be smitten; / pity would enlarge you. / But you were still listening for the bodies / falling at your feet.’
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