http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xevGz8_MBKk

Laurence Ebersole, a Seattle-based poet and devoted human rights activist, has written a newly published collection of thoughtful, compassionate, and, at times whimsical poetry, "Mural Poems: Human Rights and Antiwar Poems." His poems are written in a style that is both complex and effortless -- they are funny, touching, sometimes sad, sometimes angry, but always emphasize the individual, human dimension of politics and the way that everyone is united in the basic human struggle. Local Olympia-based artist, Erin Genia has rendered a work entitled "Child's Death Mask -- Collateral Damage," for the cover of this inspiring volume. Notably, historian Howard Zinn stated that "Laurence Ebersole's poems are eloquent outcries against war and injustice. Their lyricism is undiminished by their political power, and they boldly proclaim that poetry must be reckoned with in the struggle for a better world."

You can purchase it for $5 here:
http://www.plateausigmapress.com/mural.html

Abstraction

Noun: abstraction ab'strakshun

1. A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
2. The act of withdrawing or removing something
3. The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
4. An abstract painting
5. Preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
6. A general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples