The poetry in this section has a wide range of relationships with the first Bahá'í teaching Plan launched in 1937. I was born in the summer of 1944,when Shoghi Effendi celebrated the completion of that Plan with the publication in August of God Passes By.
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My poetry here is based on: Bahá'í history, secular history and my own life. I try to draw various strands of experience together into a reflective, a reflexive, oeuvre in relation to this first Plan, a Plan Shoghi Effendi called our "preliminary task." The accomplishment of this task, wrote Shoghi Effendi, would enable my generation to fulfil its destiny in the century, 1944-2044.
