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One snowy Christmas Eve in 1972 while walking home from a poetry reading in Cambridge, Massachusetts during a winter storm that stopped all traffic; there on the street, I realized poetry was all around me. In the silence of the snow, in the shop lights reflected on the parked cars blanketed in white; in the empty night-traffic lights turning green and red but without cars and drivers to notice them; then yellow and green again without the passing of cars and trucks, marking time that didn't matter at that moment. Stillness remained. What made me fall in love with poetry was the potential for words to transform the mundane, to open the window of the soul, while voicing the universal experiences of all men and women. And though some silences should be left alone, there is a time to lend a voice for those who cannot speak for themselves: the trees, indigenous people, children, the burden of grief bared alone, and the boundlessness of love. My work not only reflects my view, but the influence of places I have known. I hope my voice is one simple, but universal and true sound.

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Williams is a poet born not made. His work comes honesty from places he knows intimately. Some people are reborn in geographical heartlands...he is one of them. Read these as you would listen to songs and be reborn yourself. - Gerald Hausman, author of The Image Taker The voice is wholly original, yet evocative of others, resonant with soul and history. - Judy Goldstein Botello, author of The Other Side His poems transcend known reality and submerged in a radiant bath of light and shadow, Williams' images morph into living words, similes, and metaphors. - Ana Varela Tafur, author of Dama En El Escenario

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J. E. Williams is an American acupuncture pioneer and integrative medicine physician, researcher, and writer. He is also an organic gardener, poet, and practitioner of tai chi and yoga, and has worked with indigenous people since 1967 to protect and preserve culture, environment, and intellectual rights. His current work with the Q'ero in the Peruvian Andes includes building projects, education, and community health. He divides his time between California, Florida, Cuba, and Peru teaching Earth-based wisdom and heart-centered spirituality and spends as much time in the high Andean wilderness and deep Amazonian rainforest as possible.

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