Sunday, December 20, 2009

Can Poetry Contribute to the Peace Process? April is National Poetry Month

We abide in aggravating times. The circadian newscasts are abounding with belief about poverty, crime, accustomed disasters, politics, and, of course, war. With so abounding armed conflicts angry all over the globe, address is generally casting abreast in favor of conflict. Words and choir of accord are generally shouted down by demagogues who are absorbed on agriculture the war machine. In age-old times, poets were admired by their adolescent citizens as humans who took an breath allotment in political issues and in befitting the peace. As abounding poets are accurate idealists in this apple of strife, conceivably we should about-face to them added generally for inspiration.

-- We abide in aggravating times. The circadian newscasts are abounding with belief about poverty, crime, accustomed disasters, politics, and, of course, war. With so abounding armed conflicts angry all over the globe, address is generally casting abreast in favor of conflict. Words and choir of accord are generally shouted down by demagogues who are absorbed on agriculture the war machine. In age-old times, poets were admired by their adolescent citizens as humans who took an breath allotment in political issues and in befitting the peace. As abounding poets are accurate idealists in this apple of strife, conceivably we should about-face to them added generally for inspiration.

“When you are affected by poetry, it creates a absolute activity in you,” says Alicia Ghiragossian, artist and columnist of Peace Quantum (Yerevan State University, 2006). “I absolutely accept that activity is catching and can expand. Humankind needs to be acquainted about the activity and happiness-creating accoutrement of Love, Peace and Forgiveness.”

Ghiragossian’s balladry was put calm to pay account to those who accept accustomed their lives for Peace and adulation like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. It is her animated achievement that her words can advice accord to creating accord on this planet. “Peace starts in the affection of individuals,” says Ghiragossian. “I address about Peace because words accept a body and they can biking to added souls through accelerated waves, which cannot be detected by animal senses.”

Her balladry is advised to annals anon into the subconscious. Ghiragossian founded the “meta-dimensional” approach of poetry, in which she apparent the capital elements of metaphors. Her latest book has been accepted by some of the world’s a lot of acclaimed proponents of peace.

“Books like these will accord appear the advance of accord in the world,” said The Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Laureate.

In adjustment to acquaint with as advanced of an admirers as possible, she borrows the accent of science to analyze the attributes of accord and adulation in three languages: English, Spanish and Armenian. “I anticipate that aggregate in the cosmos is connected,” says Ghiragossian. “When you accept the affection and body of a poet, I assumption you can acquisition the allegorical ancillary of annihilation that deals with the seek of life, even of science.”

Her plan is accepted all over the world. She has becoming all-embracing prizes and has been appear in English, Spanish, Armenian, Italian, Persian, Greek, and French. It has aswell been translated into Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.

She is abnormally acclaimed in Armenia, area her plan has aggressive ancestors of adolescent poets and classrooms are called afterwards her. Her brownish apprehension rests in the National Museum of Arts and Literature of the Republic of Armenia, area she charcoal an important celebrity to this day.

More than three decades ago, her creations brought such a new articulation aural Armenian abstract that newspapers press her balladry were awash at twenty times their value. For the aboriginal time in Armenian, and conceivably in apple history, a atramentous bazaar of balladry was created. Since then, she has become one of the a lot of admired poets of the Armenian humans and her works accept become best sellers.

With 44 volumes of her balladry published, her plan is advised to be a allotment of the giants of apple poetry, alluring the absorption of abounding acclaimed luminaries. In fact, she is the alone active artist whose plan was illustrated by the allegorical Pablo Picasso.

Ghiragossian’s book, Peace Quantum, presents its balladry in a different way. The balladry are laid out side-by-side in English, Spanish, and Armenian. It is one of the world’s aboriginal absolutely trilingual balladry book. Accompanying her book is a CD of her poems, set to the music of Chopin, and a DVD with a abbreviate film.

For an advanced analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Alicia Ghiragossian for a story, amuse acquaintance Jay Wilke at 727-443-7115, ext. 223

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