Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Virginia Astley and compassionate hand

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Versions of haunting poems about exile and displacement by the German poet Hilde Domin are woven into the book

the atrocities of American empire and consumerism

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Proof of Life on Earth by Degna Stone Virginia Astley and compassionate handYou live and then you die. Thats the only certainty there is, right? Using love as its guide, Proof of Life on Earth, the debut poetry collection by Degna Stone, looks at all the stops between our arrival and our departure. These poems examine matters of the heart (both the metaphorical and medical kind), of race and discrimination, of the body, mind and self each in forensic detail, attentive and curious of what moves, shapes, and makes us alive. In