Fire in the Soul

Fire in the Soul: 100 Poems for Human Rights
New Internationalist: 2009. 184 pgs. Young Adult Nonfiction

This collection of poets from around the world explores the theme of basic human rights. Although many of the poems deal with human rights violations (such as genocide) or are written by poets who were imprisoned for their beliefs, they are not poems of defeat; they are demonstrations of the strength of the human spirit.

This was an eye-opening anthology of poems. The inclusion of poets from around the world really showed how many different types of human rights violations have occurred and how the problem isn't limited to one type of country or people.

AE