Pace e Bene

WHAT HAVE POETS HAD TO SAY THROUGHOUT HISTORY ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE AND TRAUMA OF WAR?

BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE
Monthly Film Series

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This beautiful film revisits the poems of Homer, Wilfred Owen, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, and Shoda Shinoe from Hiroshima to testify to the experience and trauma of war, and introduces poets of our own time who take up this tradition of “poetry as witness.” Contemporary poets include Vietnam vets, and poets from Baghdad to Biafra. “From ancient Babylonia and the fields of Troy to the conflicts of our times, this film etches the experience of war through powerful documentary images and the words of poets, soldiers, journalists, and historians.”