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María Cristina Azcona
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A Guide to Find Peace
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María Cristina Azcona Binding: Paperback (pp: 222) ISBN: 978-81-8253-101-7
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Cristina Azcona from Argentina wears several hats. She is
a poet, psychologist, fiction writer, editor and
researcher. She is also involved in peace organizations,
like the IFLAC (The International Forum for the
Literature and Culture of Peace), for which she is one of
the directors. Azcona founded Bilingual MCA, a
non-profit organization, to promote bilingual literature
for peace, and edits an e-zine for the promotion of peace
by bilingual poets worldwide. She also organizes poetry
readings for the members of this organization, who visit
Argentina.
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PREFACE
I have
thirty-two long years working professionally.
During the first twenty years I attended
behavioral and learning problems in children.
During the innumerable sessions of family that I
carried out, to diagnose emotionally and then to
orient the parents on the ways in which they
should treat their children, I discovered the
imperceptible threads that connect these problems
with parents¨ attitudes and emotional factors, in
a clear relation of cause and effect.
Subsequently I could go detecting the processes
that carry to the construction of a solid
conjugal, familiar and personal happiness, through
the cultivation of the human virtues and the
education in values. Finally I get interest into
the reach of peace through the cultivation of
literature and especially through the cultivation
of poetry.
This book
develops a procedure to help the individuals,
families and all social groups to find peace, by
the promotion and the diffusion of thoughts that
are indispensable for a sane social development.
This diffusion could be possible by the systematic
and non systematic education, using literature and
culture that are able to lead us towards peace. A
serene mind, a state of tranquil spirit and a
harmonious, altruistic way of life are capable to
transform Earth into a Peace Universe.
We need to
create a solid equilibrium between the members of
the social cells: families and then neighborhoods.
But how can we achieve these goals? The literature
that involves high values and especially the peace
poetry can be innovative instruments to help us in
this attempt.
To cite
other matters, the concept of the peace that I
present in this book is the general from personal
to social levels.
Personal
peace can be reached through the development of a
mind free of stimulus after relaxation, meditation
and even pray. Literature is a great help in this
direction. Familiar conflicts can be resolved
using literary activities too.
Social peace
is not only the lack of violence but above all,
the presence of a continuous and vivid equilibrium
in the interior of social groups. We need to study
the ways to maintain societies far from compulsive
repetition of the social violence. Recent
investigations found that history characters that
have perpetrated genocides or other crimes against
humanity have had a terrible infancy. We need to
understand the delicate mechanisms of history and
the psychological causes of political decisions.
Consistently, the extraordinary way to prevent the
social violence is the education of new
generations in the maintenance of peace as a main
and important value to be maintained and to be
cultivated by all. Globalization has created a new
environment where the interchanging of diverse
cultural values is practiced daily. Particularly,
Bilingual Literature is the main cultural activity
that transports the cultural meanings that are
fond of peace, in the meaning of equilibrium,
harmony and serenity.
María
Cristina Azcona
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Window
to Heaven
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María Cristina Azcona Binding: Paperback
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Description: María Cristina Azcona is an Educational Psychologist,
poetess, novelist and peace researcher. Her
articles, reviews, poems and short stories are
continuously published in many newspapers,
magazines and anthologies around Argentina, UK,
India, US, and other countries. Since 1980, she
works as a psychotherapist specialized in Forensic
Psycho diagnosis, listed by the American
Biographical Institute (ABI) in their
international directory "Experts &
Expertise". (US)
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She
was born in Buenos Aires City, Argentina, where
she lives joined to her family. In 1998, she won
First Prize in the poetry contest by the Academic
Circle of Argentinean Writers. After she had been
finalist in many contests of poetry by different
literary institutions. She has written and
published four books: The
poetry collections, "Dos Talles
Menos de Cerebro" (1999) and "Mundo
Postmoderno" (2000), both books fully
illustrated by the author herself. A novel "La
Voz del Ángel" (2002) and the essay,
"Estar de Novios Hoy", (2003),
this one written jointly with her husband, Ernesto
Castellano.
In
2000 she started to write bilingually, with a
unique intention: to spread her peace ideals,
worldwide. In 2001, she founded the nonprofit
organization "Bilingual MCA" to
promote bilingual literature for peace, and since
then, she edits a philanthropic E-zine dedicated
to the publication and promotion of exquisite
peace poems by many bilingual poets, worldwide.
She has organized several poetry readings by
members of this institution, who came to visit her
country to recite their poems. Since 2002, she is
Editorial Advisor for "The Taj Mahal
Review", a bimonthly literary journal devoted
to arts, literature, poetry and culture, published
by Cyberwit.net. India. During 2003 and 2004, she
worked as a Bilingual Reviewer to Editorial El
Ateneo and Director of Institutional Relations
to the Argentine Center for Development of
Writers. In 2004 she was selected as Director in
Argentina for the International Forum for a
Literature and a Culture of Peace (IFLAC). She
directed several poetry contests in 2004 and 2005.
In
2005, she has been nominated as an honorary member
of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies
Global Core Team, Columbia University, New York,
US. In 2005 also, she was nominated as Universal
Peace Ambassador in the framework of the Universal
Ambassadors Peace Circle, Switzerland. During the
last years she has worked for UNESCO as peace
researcher writer and at the same time, her
literary work has been extensively published
worldwide.
The
Once Orange Badge Poetry Supplement, UK, published
her poem "Family Abuse". Since 2004, her
articles and poems about Peace can be read at the
EOLSS Encyclopedia, edited jointly by UNESCO-EOLSS
Joint Committee, UK.
In
the United States of America, her bilingual poems
and articles can be read at printed publications
like Spirit Magazine, EAP Bulletin, Poesia and
Poesia News, Latino Today, Meeting of the Minds
Journal and Poetry Magazine. (US)
The
Literary Journal Taj Mahal Review (every issue)
and the anthologies: The Golden Wings, Voyages,
Explorers, New Pegasus, The Still Horizon,
Symphonies, Harvests of New Millennium, all by
Cyberwit.net, feature her best poems, reviews and
comments.
Kabita
Pakshik, Kolkata, India, has published her poetry
in Bengali. Also in India, Leaves, The Mango Tree
has published one of her articles and also her
bilingual poetry. In Kerala, India and Jordan, her
articles and poems have been published in several
magazines and newspapers. Her articles,
translations and poems are being published at
other countries, like Norway, Romania, Greece and
Brazil. She is usually invited to international
congresses centered in Peace Literature. Her books
are findable in the most important libraries in
Argentina, and the Web.
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Reviews
on "Window to heaven" a poetry book by M C
Azcona
From
eminent poets and philosophers
Maria,
I have received a copy of Window to Heaven. I find
here a happy marriage between your lyrics and
printing. The cover, design and presentation are
delightful to the eyes. You are at your best as
usual in Window to Heaven. These are meaningful
poems, particularly at this time when peace is
being shredded into pieces. This is an impressive
collection. Your biography and prologue are
equally impressive. I agree with you when you say
that 'The education of love must include the
concept of love to humanity, as a way to teach
solidarity, cooperative spirit, and respect to
humanity.' I am pleased to read that Pope John
Paul 11 is your inspirer. Pope John Paul was a
compass that guided humanity for moral strength
and also how to live and die. The magnetic needle
of this compass always pointed out to the culture
of peace and love that was watched closely by a
sea of eager eyes everywhere. Maria Azcona, you
are on the right track. You are doing a service to
humanity by using your talent for peace. Stephen
Gill- Laureated poet -writer- Canada
"I
mind sometimes writing poems to create peace
is difficult like our reality, because poetry is
not birth in only concept, in only feeling, only
shouts, or only cry. It seems to need
intelligence, humanity, and harmony.
Dr. Maria Cristina Azcona could give us the poetry
grace. Her book 'Window to Heaven'
shows us how to create peace by her profound
insight, psychology, deliberation, and love. The
vivid image is like shining bright by moonlight in
peace of night. The music is like
ripples washing our mind-shore to arouse our
consciousness from our gulf to peace.
Thank you Dr. Maria Cristina Azcona.
Your brave challenge to Peace would be celebrated
in our planet. Kae
Morii- Poet-Japan
You
are a psychotherapist and your knowledge of the
human beings and the sufferings gives to your
poetry this addition of direction goes to the
subsoil of our existences by the depth of the
words which reveal one lived of engagement. You
are woman and because they give or can give the
life, the women which begin by the words, the
action and poetic art, have this dimension to
restore what there is moreover in vain and of
nobler in the human one. Guy Crequie-
Poet, Philosopher -France
These
poems belong to a category that we could call
"poems to improve ourselves and the external
world". The poems of Maria Cristina Azcona in
this book are such from forward edge to the last
ones. They give us the
impression that this poetess, with few words,
knows how to express the drama of this generation
lost in the ocean of the commercial communication,
the propaganda and the fashion. The last verses of
the book say "You need to help me in this
endeavor/giving your hand to whom is at your
side/Discovering Peace around your heart/to
enlighten the darkness of this decadent life"
and it talks about the contribution of the
individual to find the own peace and the
improvement for a better world. Truly Maria
Cristina Azcona must be considered part of the
still small army conformed by people of good will,
who work hardly to change the world. In this sense
she can be considered part of the Movement for the
International Understanding, in whose vanguard we
include all persons who favor
the use and diffusion of the international
language neutral Esperanto. Renato
Corsetti Esperanto Association President - Italy
translation from Esperanto by Roberto Sartor,
Argentina
"The
book got into my house this morning
filling the walls with its presence
opened one to one four windows
the East one to let the sun get in
the South one to get peace for tomorrow
the Feather one to write Love
and the One which is Breeze and Tolerance. "Ernesto
Kahan IFLAC Vicepresident Doctor in Medicine and
Literature (translated to English by M C Azcona)
"The
writer's mission - among others - is to
recover the kidnapped word and bring it back to
it' back to it's restoring dynamic.It this
book María Cristina Azcona is demiurg who
poetically communicates to us her lucid and why
not? prophetic look about the characteristics and
conceptions of the present world. She keeps her
self demand because she never leaves beauty aside.
Even when she refers to the paradox of our times,
and makes use of sharpness or subtle irony, she
does so with a high degree of lyricism. Sometimes
she portraits a certain situation from the
veracity of a description, in the way through
drawing and painting does Silvina Ocampo and other
writers. Even in poems where reflects the cruelty
of an destructive exterior world, she will lay a
mantle of understanding over the un protected of
the voices of injustice and dreams, and she will
make an urgent call to our interior self. Maria
Cristina Azcona is a muse, a poet, prophet and an
indefatigable paladin of peace, also devotes
several compositions on the topic, attentive to
the signs of postmodern times and seeing that
poetry highlights as a creative reality which
gives sense permanent values, amidst the process
of individual and social decay.A poetic work for
young and adults which should not be absent from
any humanist' library." Marita
Ragozza, IFLAC Argentina- Pehuajo Delegate
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