Paroles et Lumieres-Where Light Speaks: Haiti (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Hiebert; Phelps; Yates; Cav

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0968557902 ISBN 13: 9780968557907

Publisher: Intl Child Care, 1999

Synopsis

Haiti is a nation exploding with expression. Deep below the flow of everyday life is a rhythm that knows innately how to celebrate being alive -- a giving of memory to all of the senses. You will see it in the color of carnival or in the white upon white at first communion. Listen and you will hear it in the familiar ring of the shoeshiner's bell as he passes in the street, and in the laughter of storytelling by candlelight at night. Photographer Carl Hiebert and writers Anthony Phelps, Sandy Noble Yates and Syto Cave present this Haiti, loved and calling to be remembered. Where Light Speaks is a rediscovery, not only of what is Haitian, but of what is human.

About this title

From the Publisher:

International Child Care is a Christian health development agency dedicated to promoting health and wholeness to those in need, especially children. A legally recognized non-profit organization in Haiti, Canada and the USA, ICC has worked for more than 30 years in Haiti and more than a decade in the Dominican Republic. Through Grace Children's Hospital, the Crusade Against Tuberculosis, and several rural health projects, ICC has earned a solid reputation as a leader in Haiti's health sector. All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to support health programs for children in Haiti.

About the Author:

Photographer Carl Hiebert is the author of the best-selling books Gift of Wings: An Aerial Celebration of Canada and Us Little People: Mennonite Children. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Vanier Award - to recognize outstanding Canadians - for his historic flight across Canada in an ultralight. His photographs have appeared in numerous North American magazines.

Poet and novelist Anthony Phelps has lived in Montreal since 1964. A retired journalist from the TV newsroom of Radio Canada, he has published fifteen books and recorded several albums of poetry, among them Mon Pays Que Voici, Les beaux pomes d'amour d'Haiti-littraire, La posie contemporaine d'Haiti.

Sandy Noble Yates, registered nurse and writer, first encountered Haiti in the late 1970's while working with a team of vaccinators travelling extensively in the mountains of the south. Since 1992, she has resided with family in Port-au-Prince, where she is pursuing writing and music, which includes a work entitled of painted fields wild.

Syto Cav is a poet, playwright and director whose plays have been staged in the United States, France, Canada, Haiti and the French Antilles. A founding member of the theatrical company Kouidor, he is the author of a CD, Lapsn, and the recently published work Le Singe du dormeur.

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Child Care
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0968557902
• ISBN 13: 9780968557907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 165