Environmental and contemporary, this "found poem" written summer of 1975 by author Edwin Riley on a soul-seeking pilgrimage from Gainesville, Florida to Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, to Bolinas, California, Santa Cruz; back to Boulder and Florida, is a visionary work warning of the future problems the world faces today. More relevant than ever and written in a hilarious, yet serious tone, "Earthwise" sat on the shelf until its publication in 1994.
Poet Anne Waldman called it "...smart, questioning, passionate, clear and deserves to be out there."
Arun Gandhi, grandson of India's Mahatma Gandhi, said this: "Earthwise is a compelling book that provokes thought and action. It is a poetic revelation of the sorry state of our world and what we can do to save it. I consider it to be a book for every shelf, for every mind and for every heart."
Greenpeace spokesperson Christopher Child called "Earthwise a lyrical Rx for the age, flowing from the personal and the local to the universal and the expansive. It speaks as directly to the situation and circumstance of the individual as it does to the broader requirements of the planet."
"Earthwise: An Approach to Planetary Sanity," has literally transcended time. Written over six months in 1975, it offers a chilling retrospect of how politicians and global leaders have failed to heed warnings about our planet 36 years ago that would make the world today a sane and different place in which to live. A MUST READ!!!!
