1001 Days of Love

Poetry/Romance/Adventure Does poetry really matter? Is it just something some of us enjoy that by and large one learns in high school to pass a test? Or at best one hopes to read aloud in a coffee shop? Or is it something that out of the escalating misery, fear, frustration and anger of our times can give us something of enduring reassurance and steel for mobilizing the greater heart and mind? "One should go down fighting for what over our run of more than 100,000 years for our species, and survival so far into the eighties for myself, has mattered most," evolutionary systems scientist David Loye tells us in this intimate and passionate book. "That one thing above all," he insists, "is love." Emerging out of the turbulence of the 1980s, 90s, and early years of the 21st century, with lyric overtones of Wordsworth, Blake, Yeats and Whitman, here are poems Loye wrote to capture the love sustaining the romance and pioneering involvement in 20th and 21st century science and social action of evolutionary action theorist Riane Eisler and himself. Continuing the surprise of the poems scattered within their earlier joint biography 3,000 Years of Love, here we go further and deeper into their intimate lives. We go further behind the international best-seller The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations into the drama of the holocaust survivor and thinker who has been called "The New Renaissance Woman" and "One of the most important visionaries of our time." We go further behind the award-winning The Healing of a Nation, and recovery of "the rest and best" of Darwin's theory of evolution in Loye's new six-book Darwin Anniversary Cycle by a noted developer of the new field of evolutionary action science. It is a glimpse into the core of a revolution emerging within the hearts of millions of us worldwide-which must succeed if we are to move from global self destruction to planetary sanity during the 21st century.