Voices From The Land Of Trees Merce Sarrias

Voices From The Land Of Trees Merce SarriasVoices from the Land of Trees tells the story of Guatemalas thirty six years of civil war. It is a familiar tale of exploitation, poverty and repression in pursuit of US interests. But the Silent Holocaust of Guatemala was extraordinarily brutal even by the standards of Central America, involving CIA trained death squads, the widespread use of torture and rape, the deliberate targeting of churches and the genocide of 200,000 Indians. These poems are

Nazem el-Sayed

"An exquisite collection

to the Southern territories of his distant American past

the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work

His most recent collection of poetry

In this book he tells candidly of the challenges and rewards of the jazz life as well as the destructive aspects he has seen – especially racial discrimination and drugs

negotiating internal and external boundaries of identity and meaning

India and in the United States

Interview by Eskandar Habache

he prays for the grace to "go with the flow"

Tarek el-Ariss Origin by Diane Abu-Jaber

Kevin Simmonds