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Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory
Susan Hawthorne

Valence
    in chemistry, the number of bonds in an
    element’s atom
    in linguistics, the number of arguments
    controlled by a verbal predicate
    in psychology, the emotional charge
    something has

In this remarkable annotated poem, Susan Hawthorne commits to words the horrors of war that have been left unspoken. She shatters the conspiracy of silence and dares to draw links between militarism, fundamentalism and the sex industry. She rails against the violence of war and contemplates the link between place and the history of war that is infused into the earth. With a fresh examination of her surroundings, she considers the endless cycle of war that survives on the persistence of hope—hope of an end to war, hope of an end to suffering. This is a hope that Susan Hawthorne does not ultimately share, but her courage in telling the truth about war through her poetry is a gift for readers.

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Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory is a powerful rage against the brutality and greed of war; against the particular suffering of women in war; against our indifference but more importantly, our sense of powerlessness in the face of wars most of us neither support nor would ever instigate. Susan Hawthorne’s primary companion to this rage is her grief.

Here is a poet of moral conscience, in the fine tradition of Adrienne Rich, a poet writing across boundaries; striving with each form to elucidate, illuminate, change.”
Robyn Rowland, author of 'Perverse Serenity'
But oh, “undoing hatred is a pilgrimage of hurt . . .” oh yes, and this is what a lifetime of feminism is all about finally, going out to the edge and finding your sisters there. Thank you so very much for this profound work.
Kathleen Barry, author of 'Unmaking War, Remaking Men'
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