Colin Greer Libros

Residing at the meeting point of social justice and spirituality, Colin Greer's third collected work of poetry, Defeat/No Surrender, is a tribute to his late friend, and spiritual teacher, Dr. Jerry Epstein, founder of the American Institute for Mental Imagery (AIMI). Following in a long spiritual tradition that premises ethical relationships as the foundation for connection to God and the key to collective liberation, Greer's poems explore our longing for unity and the injustices that keep us divided. Mixing past and present in a collage of rich imagery, Defeat/No Surrender asks us to hold up a mirror to ourselves and our crumbling communities, and implores us to imagine new worlds beyond survival, where new ways of loving individually and collectively can make us free. Colin Greer is president of the New World Foundation which supports activism and advocacy on behalf of the environment, democracy, and community power-building.

An engaging, moving, and poignant book of poetry from a well-known leader, educator, and writer with notable endorsements from Reverend Billy Talen (Church of Stop Shopping), Carolyn Martin (poetry editor at Kosmos Journal), and Alice Reys (Singer Dancer) among others. Colin Greer knows a lot about a lot. His rich life as an educator and author/playwright, emersed in the social and political justice trenches, is reflected in his latest poetry book alongside his wordily wisdom. The author muses on the human condition through verse, taking the lucky reader through the ordinary, the personal, the sublime, and tragic alike. If But My Gaze Could Heal's 150 poems are thoughtfully broken into five thematic chapters: With or Without Which, Mischief and Melancholy, Stick out your Tongue, Phew!, and What is Hidden and Hidden From. The Reverend Billy Talen, founder of the radical performance group Church of Stop Shopping exclaimed, "reading Gaze made my hair change color."