The Poems of the Los Angeles Men's Movement

I was invited to give an address at the graduation of the grip programme at san quentina few years ago, guiding rage into power. And they had a valedictorian who spoke about how on behalf of them all, how theyhad all been violent men and they now took a pledge to never solve a difficulty or conflict with violence again. They spoke in really eloquent ways. What is forgiveness? In small ways and in big ways, we need it because we're related to each other, like it or not. This book by a zen teacher, coshen paley, coshan ellison, he says, at 18, i was on a bus in colorado