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Loading... Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through Heartsongsby Mattie J. T. Stepanek
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This has to be one of the most touching books I have ever read. What comes from the heart goes to the heart, and this collection of poems written by Mattie J.T Stephen has entered my heart. The poem tells how he sees things and how he feels about the doctor visit and how much he loves his mother. He even wrote a letter to Bosnia after he heard about the war there, how magnificent. Even though he was going through tough times, he had an amazing sense of humor. He wanted people to be happy and appreciate what they have. Books can be written about this great. This will be a great source for an ELA class because of the beautiful language it is written in. also it is a great source to be taught in a social study class. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years but in that time became a poet, best-selling author, peace activist, and a prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Before his death in June 2004, his five volumes of Heartsongs poetry sold more than a million copies. Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through Heartsongs is the final collection of Heartsongs that Mattie was working on when he died. It includes the last poem Mattie penned along with a special collection of unpublished poetry, photographs, and artwork spanning the decade from when he began writing Heartsongs at age three. Culled from the thousands of poems, essays, and journal entries Mattie left behind, the entries in Reflections of a Peacemaker create a portrait of Mattie in his own words. In these poems he explores disability, despair, and death but also the gifts he finds in nature, prayer, peace, and his belief in something "bigger and better than the here and now." The poems are grouped by theme such as playful, stormy, sacred, and final Heartsongs, with each section introduced by a personal tribute from the likes of Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, and former President Jimmy Carter. In the words of Mattie's mother, Jeni Stepanek, who has published Reflections of a Peacemaker at her son's request, "In reading these poems we enter Mattie's world and gain insight through a child who somehow balanced pain and fear with optimism and faith." No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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