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In the words of Mattie's mother, who is publishing Reflections of a Peacemaker at her son's request, "In reading these poems we enter Mattie's world and gain insight through a child who somehow balanced pain and fear with optimism and faith."
Andrews McMeel Publishing
August 2005
240 pages
ISBN: 0740756257
Hardcover
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Contemporary
Mattie J. T. Stepanek lived and died a child, but he had
the spirit of a giant. Affected by a rare and fatal
neuromuscular disease, Mattie lived almost fourteen years
but in that time became a poet, best-selling author, peace
activist, and a prominent voice for the Muscular Dystrophy
Association. Before his death in June 2004, his five
volumes of Heartsongs poetry sold more than a million
copies.
Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through Heartsongs
is the final collection of Heartsongs that Mattie was
working on when he died. It includes the last poem Mattie
penned along with a special collection of unpublished
poetry, photographs, and artwork spanning the decade from
when he began writing Heartsongs at age three. Culled from
the thousands of poems, essays, and journal entries Mattie
left behind, the entries in Reflections of a Peacemaker
create a portrait of Mattie in his own words. In these
poems he explores disability, despair, and death but also
the gifts he finds in nature, prayer, peace, and his belief
in something "bigger and better than the here and now." The
poems are grouped by theme such as playful, stormy, sacred,
and final Heartsongs, with each section introduced by a
personal tribute from the likes of Maya Angelou, Oprah
Winfrey, Larry King, and former President Jimmy Carter.
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