We Too Are Alive: Poems After And Before 9/11/01

Product Description Profits From Sales To Be Donated To The Uniformed Firefighters Widows' And Children'S Fund.When We Can Speak In No Other Way, Many Find Expression Through The Transforming Pow Er Of Poetry. Thousands Across The U.S. Have Sent Their Poems To The Nyc Memorials An D Firehouses. Nyc Writer/Filmmaker Amy Greenfield'S We Too Are Alive Is The First Book Of Poetry Published In Response To 9/11, With Intimate Diary Entries Telling Us How She Was Inspired To Write By These Memorials, Finding That Which Is Positive Even In The Sorrow Of Tragedy A Kind Of Bravery Which Former Mayor Giuliani Said Kept Him Going (And Has Kept So Many Of Us Going, Including The Poe T) After 9/11. Greenfield Placed Lines Of The Poetry, With Her Email Address, On Nyc Memorials To The Wtc Victims A Week After The Attack. She Received Responses From People Who Had Lost Loved Ones On 9/11 Telling Her How Much Her Words Moved And Gave Them Solace. So She Wrote We Too Are Alive To Reach And Move All Of Us Affected. All Of Us. We Too Are Alive Is Written In Large Print, Much As Greenfield Placed Lines Of Her Poetry On The Nyc Memorials. The Book Is Intensely Visual, With Four Photographs Epitomizing The Memorials, Including The Cover Photograph Of A Scroll Written By An Unknown 14 Year Old Girl Telling Us To Just Worry About Life And How You Want To Live It. In Addition To Her Own Poetry The Book Includes An Anonymous Poem Written By A Firefighter Which Greenfield Found On One Of Those Memorials, And Helped To Circulate Among Rescue Workers. After Wounds, We Too Are Alive Helps Us To Heal Through The Transcendent Simplicity And Beauty Of Poetry: 'Lover S Embrace Safe Inside Stars' Hallowed Space Of Shivering/Prophecying Future Built Fro M Loss.' Review A Blazing Memorial Flaming Against The Night! Kenneth Anger, Author Hollywood Babylon And Filmmaker Scorpio Rising I Was Very Moved...It'S Raw, Stammering Emotions...A Very Close Touch With Reality...Beyond Poetry. Jonas Mekas, Founding Film Critic Of The Village Voice It Captures That Whole Moment In Time After 9/11 The Emotions. The Book Is An Inspiration To Me. Edward March, Special Unit Warrants Officer For The NypdThe Poem Brings Me Some Peace And Solace Everyday And Helps Me To Go On And Live Day To Day. Danny Mozzillo Whose Nyc Firefighter Brother Chris Died In The Wtc Disaster About The Author Amy Greenfield'S Multimedia Performance Poetry Has Received A Best In The Arts From The New York Times, Which Calls It Unforgettable!Her Screenplay For Her Feature Film, Antigone:Rites Of Passion Is In The Collection Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Her Feature Articles On Cinema Have Been Published By Such National Film Magazines As The Lincoln Center Film Society'S Film Comment. She Is A Fivetime Recipient Of Grants From The National Endowment For The Arts.