Ae Ballakisten

Talking to a Tree: Poems of a Fragile World Ae Ballakisten

With echoes of T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and H. G. Wells, TALKING TO A TREE asks the crucial question of mankind: ?is this really how we want to live?? The book surveys the state of humanity revealing themes of conflict and the decay of our human fabric; the poet?s fear is evident, that we are rapidly eroding our humanity and threatening our already fragile world. The book goes on to present timely and powerful images of a new mankind. With the same honesty and boldness first seen in HEAP OF STONES, AE Ballakisten presents a collection of poems that instantly resonates with the ?thinking-feeling? reader. The book is appropriately dedicated to Nelson Mandela who embodies all that TALKING TO A TREE hopes for, a return to humanity through the power of love.