Description: Children are our world's most precious commodity, & sometimes we hurt them; sometimes the hurt is intentional, but most times it cannot be helped. Bill Bauer is the author of the award-winning poetry collection THE EYE OF THE GHOST, a catharsis born of his involvement in the Vietnam Conflict. PROMISES IN THE DUST, his second collection of poetry, promises the same strong sense of personal involvement & deep caring we witnessed in his first. It is a collection of poems dealing with the hardships of being a child in our tumultuous, ofttimes unseeing & uncaring world. Bauer shows by degrees how hurt children & young adults can survive their pain & develop into whole people. His compassion & commitment make this an important book which will cause readers some soul-searching. This volume has a world-wide scope. It is dedicated to the children of the world who have been abandoned & betrayed. Beautifully done. Distributed by BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kansas City & Baker & Taylor Books.

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