Journey through Heartsongs
Author: Mattie J.T. Stepanek
Translator: Yeon-su Kim
Publisher: Ireh
135 pages
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About This Book
Mattie J.T. Stepanek takes us on a Journey Through Heartsongs with more of his
moving poems. These poems share the rare wisdom that Mattie has acquired through
his struggle with a rare form of muscular dystrophy and the death of his three
siblings from the same disease. His life view is one of love and generosity and
as a poet and a peacemaker, his desire is to bring his message of peace to as
many people as possible.
About The Author
Matthew "Mattie" Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 - June 22, 2004) was an
American poet and advocate. At the age of 3, Stepanek started to write poetry to
cope with the death of his older brother. His five books are: Heartsongs,
Journey Through Heartsongs, Hope Through Heartsongs, Celebrate Through
Heartsongs and Loving Through Heartsongs. Three of the five works made the New
York Times's Best Seller list.
Stepanek had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial
myopathy. His sister and two brothers died from the disease, and his mother
suffers from the adult form, diagnosed only after her children were born.
In 2002, Stepanek became the Muscular Dystrophy Association National Goodwill
Ambassador, due to his national high profile because of his poetry and related
appearances on Oprah, Larry King Live, and Good Morning America. He died at
Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, June 22, 2004.
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