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The Powerful Breadth ... Taking aim at our political leaders run amuck, Kenny Rose Butts chronicles these dark times - enlightening us to the present AmBush of America - one day at a time. From illegal combatants, unlawful detentions, immoral wars waged, elections stolen to attacks against personal freedom as in the woefully passed Patriot Act, Kenny weaves for us the web that exposes the lies and half-truths that have baked this American's brain and sizzled my nerves at the very lack of awareness within my own community. In this work Kenny is very much telling it like it is: … they try to sell you their story…as if their beginning and their end was the beginning and the end. His
poetic review bluntly makes clear the current lack of focus and
tries to provide the tools that will clue us in to the depth of
the tragedy that has become U.S. - certainly no longer a reflection
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These poems make me more aware of the lack of freedom in my own life - they inspire me to be the difference and to live my life inside the dream.
A Declaration of American Freedom and Possibility ... The sound of the Liberty Bell can be heard today ringing through the poetry of Kenny Rose Butts. Butts delivers in his latest collection, AmBush of America, the most powerfully uplifting declaration of American freedom and American possibility this country has seen in a long time. Here America is a poetic voice for the people, a poet calling us to stand against the disgusting tyrants that have manipulated their way into our coffers and social consciousness. This is poetry of revolution, poetry used to infuse and educate the American people in democracy, justice and self-empowerment. The strength of AmBush of America lies in its realism. The poems untangle the propaganda of corporate media and government press releases then convincingly charge the reader as having a hand not only in the growing chaos. If we have a hand in the pollution currently choking American and the world, then we also have a mind and heart to reverse the current of our current events and it is here that Butts' poetry becomes breathtaking and even thrilling. Butts is a patriot of the highest degree, ringing out with his pen the call to rise against the cor-pirate criminals and political goons by awakening, together, to the harmonious presence of our own deepest truths: that we hold these truths to be self evident, that all people are free, that we all, every one of us, want peace in our streets, and in the streets of the world, that the answers to America's problems rest in the heart and mind of you and you and you and everyone you know and everyone across this country. Butt's voice is a voice of peace but know now that this is not a naive simpleton prattling with pretty words and lofty ideas. You won't read a more logical word from any other American poet, nor a clearer description of the political and economic reality this country and the world currently faces. Butts pulls no punches, George Bush, Jr., his cronies and their friends the cor-pirate elite are enemies of the people and his poetry forces their hand open, and there within the pages you and I may simply take back the power they stole from us while we were working. This is invigorating poetry meant to wake us up, and wake us up it does. These poems will engage you deeply and have the power to change your and all of our lives. Chris Murphy - Professor of Poetry |
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