(Paperback - English - 9781571315410)
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good--a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father. With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit , Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking ourselves "separate from [our] thoughts and experiences." After all, "No work of love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart." But how do we act on ful ..