A Proclamation for Peace: Translated for the World - Softcover

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9798991055802: A Proclamation for Peace: Translated for the World

Synopsis

This book sends a peace proclamation around the world so it may become a new poem in Arabic and Hebrew, Russian and Ukrainian, Tibetan and Mandarin, Tamil, Vietnamese, Polish, Yoruba, Yucatec Maya, and a host of other languages. Together with notes about peace-making translators and their languages, and QR codes for recordings of voices speaking gentle words, this book is for the children of the world.


Cover photograph by Michael Nye.

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About the Authors

Allison deFreese is a teacher, literary translator, and conference organizer for the Oregon Society of Translators & Interpreters. Her translations include Karla Marrufo's Flame Trees in May (Mayo). Her work has also appeared in Arkana, Asymptote, and Hunger Mountain.

Kim Stafford teaches and travels to raise the human spirit. He is the author of some forty books, including Having Everything Right: Essays of Place (1986), and As the Sky Begins to Change (2024). From 2018-2020 he served as Oregon Poet Laureate.

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