Aware and Awake: Poetic Ponderings on Racism

In this small but powerful book, Author, Larry Warner, poetically explores the history and present realities of racism. His poems arise from his personal journey of as well as historical and contemporary events. He fixes his gaze on the country, the church, the politicians, the police, holding up a mirror—inviting the reader on their own personal journey of exploration around the racial realities grounded in the past but bleeding into the present.About the AuthorLarry Warner is the author of five books and his poems have appeared inA Year in Ink,San Diego Poetry Annual, Thieving Magpie and Fines Lines. In recent years he has come to appreciate the power of poems to inform and form the hearts and minds of those desiring to know and do better concerning the issues that confront our culture and communities. Larry has been married forty-two years has four children and six grandchildren. He lives in Oceanside, California.EndorsementIn a time when the consciousness of the nation and the world is at unrest, Larry Warner mixes satire with truth, to draw the conscious mind of his reader toward reality. Larry reminds us all to take a closer look inward. The potency of his writings intimates that we can no longer escape nor ignore the truth of racism.May Larry’s words create a spark in our hearts that stimulates a sense of urgency to be true to our faith, our God, and the tenets of our country.Brenda Darby, MA,author of Can We have the Conversation?Read more