Living in the Land of the Dead: An Anthology of Anthologies Faithful Fools Poetry 2004 - 2014
Faithful Fools
With grit, grace, and elegance Faithful Fools
(a live/work non-profit) has collected an anthology of anthologies
representing over 100 poets selected from five different volumes
originally published by Will to Print Press. Edited by the University of
San Francisco MartIn-BarO Scholars (2014-15), and produced by Freedom
Voices Press, this collection will take you into the streets of San
Francisco's Tenderloin District where you will hear a panoply of voices
sharing art and wisdom drawn from harsh experience and existential joy.
"Welcome to Living in the Land of the Dead... Understand: this book
contains road maps, accident reports, and prayers and is filled with
human life crying like a helpless baby or the blast of a lonely horn..."
—Ed Bowers, a Faithful Fool and Tenderloin Poet
"This
book is a crossroads. A crossroads of people: a place where poets meet
one another, where students meet poets, where faculty meet Fools. This
book is a crossroads of life: a place where words meet the page, where
truth meets dreams, where the past meets the present. It is an oasis on
the long Silk Road of poetry that connects distant corners of the
world."
—Sam Dennison, a Faithful Fool
About Faithful Fools
Some Information
Faithful Fools Mission Statement
We are called to a ministry of presence that acknowledges
each human’s incredible worth.
Aware of our judgments,
we seek to meet people where they are through the arts,
education, advocacy, and accompaniment.
We participate in shattering myths about those living in
poverty, seeing the light, courage, intelligence, strength, and
creativity of the people we encounter.
We discover on the streets our common humanity
through which celebration, community, and healing occur.
each human’s incredible worth.
Aware of our judgments,
we seek to meet people where they are through the arts,
education, advocacy, and accompaniment.
We participate in shattering myths about those living in
poverty, seeing the light, courage, intelligence, strength, and
creativity of the people we encounter.
We discover on the streets our common humanity
through which celebration, community, and healing occur.
