In Prayers for a Thousand Years, Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon have collected hundreds of wishes, blessings, stories, and challenges-almost all written especially for this volume-from a diverse group of distinguished international contributors. Spiritual teachers, poets and activists, political leaders, youth, artists and visionaries-all are joined together here for the first time, sharing their personal appeals for peace and understanding. Organized around eternal themes-such as creating communities of peace, reflections on politics, economics, and morality, and our holy earth-this book is a profound and lively collection of empowering visions for our common future and a celebration of the infinite variations of universal hope.
Chath pierSath was born in Banteay Meanchey province, Cambodia, in 1970. He came to the United States as a refugee in 1981. He received his bachelor's degree in 1993 from New College of California in International Service and Development and a MA in Community Social Psychology from UMASS Lowell.
Chath is a contemporary visual artist (https://javaarts.org), a poet, and social worker. After is a collection of poems written in the form of letters, one of which is addressed to his mother. This is called "Letter to My Mother," which is also published in an anthology called Children of the Killing Fields, compiled by Dith Pran, edited by Kim DePaul. Other anthologies where Chath's poems appear include "Where the Road Begins, an anthology", published by Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL), compiled and edited by Kathy Devlin, Matthew Miller, LZ Nunn and Ggi Thibodeau, eds. 2007. His poem, "The way I want to remember my Cambodia" is in The Merrimack Literary Review, compiled and edited by Ron Rowland & Greg Water, eds. 2004. "An Invocation for Cambodia" is featured in Prayers for a Thousand Years, compiled and edited by Elizabeth J. Roberts and Elias Amidon, eds. 1999. His short essay about the experiences of Cambodian Americans, "Inching Toward Acceptance" was published in the Commonwealth Magazine, of June, 2002. The Way I want to Remember My Cambodia and his other poems, The Mekong River, The Day It Rains, The Old Man and His Holy Sea of Sorrow, From the Womb of Life, Hunger, The Crying Dream and I Write Broken Poetry are translated into Japanese and published in The Contemporary World of Asiatic Poetry by Noriko Mizusaki
