A celebrated and diverse group of poets have contributed the beautiful selections that make up Poetry of Presence. This book of mindfulness poems provides a refuge of quiet clarity that is much needed in today's restless, chaotic world. Every reader will find favorites to share and to return to, again and again.
"Pamela's years of dedicated care for the dying, and the many hours she spent at the bedside of people in the last days of their lives, come to life in the collection of poetry"--Back cover
This companion guide to POETRY OF PRESENCE, the popular anthology of mindfulness poems, includes a list of engaging reading strategies, fifty stimulating writing prompts, and a twelve-week workshop curriculum.
Here are dream-songs about animals (bear, bison, terrapin) and life away from urban alienation, an imagined re-creation based on Billy the Kid, prose poems about Plains Shields (and a fascinating discussion of their background), and new ...
... American Georgics , his most powerful and coherent writing , stand at the beginning of a long tradition in its own right , which includes such works as Gregorio Gutiérrez González's Memoir on the Cultivation of Maize in Antioquia ( 1881 ) ...
A collection of the world's greatest poetry from the past two thousand years brings together five hundred works by more than two hundred poets, along with commentary by the editor
2008 Nebraska Book Award 2018 One Book One Nebraska selection Edited by Greg Kosmicki and Mary K. Stillwell, Nebraska Presence includes poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet ...
Kevin Bell, Brian Edwards, Jillana Enteen, Betsy Erkkila, E. Patrick Johnson, Dwight McBride, and Alex Weheliye; in Chicago, Thomas Kim, Jason Ku, Mary Margaret Sloan, and Timothy Yu. At Williams College, I have been fortunate to have ...
The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book Award for 50 Best Spiritual Books in 2017 by Spirituality and Practice Website.
One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent.
" As Poet Laureate, Pinsky is one of America's best spokesmen for poetry. In this fascinating book, he explains how poets use the "technology" of poetry--its sounds--to create works of art that are "performed" in us when we read them aloud.