Limestone & Leaves
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Nature and people interact while facing dramatic times and social changes. In Limestone & Leaves, John Cardwell's sixth book of poetry and prose, readers will find themselves laughing, sometimes crying, pondering and rooting for a future that involves more planting and less killing.
I first met John Cardwell listening to him speak up for the disadvantaged and the needs of all Hoosiers in hearing rooms at the Indiana Statehouse. His latest book is an extension of that, a call to remember a better past — often with a nostalgia for his own past — and a condemnation of present days in which innocent people are hunted by masked men and children starve in war-demolished cities. But he also is a believer. "I know the darkness will end," he writes. "…I must believe this vision, that I am not alone in dreaming hope."
I am sure he is not, and the peacemakers he dedicates this volume to would agree.
Mary Beth Schneider Former Senior Statehouse Reporter for the Indianapolis Star
