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The last poem from Harper’s collection Healing Song for the Inner Ear, “Peace on Earth” concludes a triad in which Harper moves beyond his previous addresses to and descriptions of jazz giants to enter the mind and soul of John Coltrane. Using a structure of separate image clusters produced by groupings of two and three lines, Harper not only recapitulates the highlights of Coltrane’s life and work but also maintains a correspondence between the music and his own poetry, finding parallels between Coltrane’s compositions and many of his own efforts.