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Dreaming the End of War

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

"If war is hell," writes poet and novelist Benjamin Alire Sáenz, then the matter of overcoming the very idea of war is another kind of hell... Dreaming the End of War is about the impulse to speak, to say enough."
This gripping suite of twelve dreams, emanating from the borderland between Mexico and the United States, traces humanity's addiction to violence--from boys stepping on ants to men shooting animals, menshooting women, men shooting enemies. The dreams begin in a desert landscape where poverty and wealth grate against each other, and the ever-present war becomes "as invisible as the desert sands we trample on." The dreams move toward a greater peace, with Sáenz providing glimpses of a peace that is possible in this world.

Binding: paper

ISBN: 1-55-659-239-6