Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir
ISBN-10
1451693206
ISBN-13
9781451693201
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2017-08-15
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Jill Bialosky

Description

"An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath ... For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell ... she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living"--

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