Poet Kit Pepper’s season in the Highlands of Guatemala
Let Beauty Be: a Season in the Highlands, Guatemala is a cycle of sequential poems distilled from events and impressions Kit Pepper gained while volunteering in the northwestern highlands of Guatemala from February to May, 2006. There she was aligned with Alianza, a project which responded to grassroots requests for education and health care from the local Mam-speaking women and men of Comitancillo and surrounding, rural aldeas.
“This novel long poem journal offers 31 days as runs—at and into—the act of compassion that seeing and hearing clearly can be. Exotic beauty—as stumbling block—trips metaphor—or ignores it.” (Phil Hall)
Kit Pepper has lived on Gabriola Island for seventeen years and works in the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo. She joins us in the studio to talk about her latest book.
