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De Rerum Natura (2022)
Poetry
Creation myths, imagined throughout human history, may fascinate. But scientists have pieced together an objective picture of the story of creation. In this short collection of poems, Hillstrom presents this contemporary creation story in poetic form from the Big Bang through human evolution to our ensuing, social organization. This entire story is told in one poem entitled Genesis RW / An improbable Observer.
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The Story of Our People (2008)
Poetry
In The Story of Our People by David Hillstrom, an older woman in a ruined city takes care of a group of children, telling them a remarkable story to explain the complex world at large. This story, told in poems and narrative, is the basis of Hillstrom’s insightful and moving collection.The grandmother tells the children of the popular uprisings that took place over and over again throughout history, yet she also calls for a new social order which might keep hope alive. As the story progresses, the grandmother introduces a woman, a poet and a welder, each of whom bring love, romance and practicality to this envisioned new world.In The Story of Our People, Hillstrom suggests that ideals can be realized and that a new natural order can come about. Beautifully written and told with insight and sensitivity, The Story of Our People is both a message of hope and a deeply moving collection of poems.
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The Bridge (2008)
Philosophy
The Bridge by David hillstrom is an ambitious philosophical work. In part one the author embarks on a Cartesian quest to examine social beliefs from religion to the secular. By demonstrating the conflicts between established scientific knowledge and our religious but also secular beliefs Hillstrom shows that we hold those beliefs irrationally. He also explains the tendency that humans have toward myth and shows that most of our fundamental social beliefs are structured essentially as myths.
In part two Hillstrom examines the deep historical roots of human conflict and analyzes the contemporary geopolitical context. He then goes on to suggest steps toward reforming international institutions.
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The Story of Our People (2008)
Poetry
​SCENE THREE ''Following the barricades there was but one road left, Exodus. The welder led the chosen, including a woman and a poet, to a haven in exile. But wounded by the ordeal of the barricades and the long march of Exodus, he could not endure. The woman and the poet went on and, alone in a quiet room, they shared their thoughts, thoughts that had grown from events into a sense of philosophy, a sense of natural order. They shared a very special companionship, a life of letters, labor and love. And from their union sprang a new generation.'' ''You are their children!''
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