ISBN: 9780820347219

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Paperback / softback. New. These rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday … Mehr…

Paperback / softback. New. These rich, lyrical poems, written by Jane Gentry over ten years, register the resonance between the poet's inner being and the outer world's everyday events. Moments of insight -- gained while watching a roofer at work next door, napping with the cat, reading on the porch, carrying the laundry, or strolling the aisles of Sam's Club -- expose the bright bones of the swiftness of time's passage, reminding us to stay attentive. Gentry's poems are deeply grounded in the continuity of family and homeplace yet also embrace new experiences. The juxtaposition of the ordinary and the beautiful, the paradox of the mundane and the artistic -- whether in nature, in relationships, in memories, or in the body -- are the hallmarks of her second collection. &quot;&quot;The years took our house, cool and dark, // generous as a healthy heart, where in September // a cricket sang under the kitchen hearth.They took my mother with her red hair // and her creamy skin, and my father // whose laughing head shone with the fire // of summer as he shoveled corn to his pigs.When I awoke one day, my bloom //was past. Those who loved me first were dead, // and promises had blown away like chaff // or clouds, which dazzle now only in the moment // of their height and roll. // The years have given back the thing itself.&quot;&quot;- My Life Story, 6, " Explains how readers can relate to the world around and to nature in a more meaningful way by finding the spiritual and soulful heart of ordinary life. From the Publisher: Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, the first two books by Thomas Moore, were both huge national bestsellers, appearing on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list for more than eight months each and selling more than two million copies. In this important sequel, Thomas Moore takes readers to a new level and teaches them how to relate to the world and nature in a more meaningful way. Introducing the idea that the soul is an essential ingredient of life, Care of the Soul together with Soul Mates changed the way millions of readers thought about psychology and spirituality. Now, with The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Moore takes another radical step, applying care of the soul to our surroundings and the concrete particulars of how we live. Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but a necessity for our personal and collective survival. With his lens focused on such specific aspects of daily life as clothing, food, furniture, architecture, ecology, language, and politics, Moore describes the renaissance these can undergo when there is a genuine engagement with beauty, craft, nature, and art in both private and public life. When all is said and done, what makes life worth living? Not electronics, entertainment, or rapid information retrieval, but a spiritual and soulful vision that arises from enchanted nature, a fantasy-filled childhood, intimate neighborhoods and homes, and a public life dedicated to the needs of the heart. The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life opens up the care of the soul and the search for intimate life in the ordinary world in which we live every day. Millions of readers who found comfort and substance in Moore's previous bestsellers will discover in this new book ways to restore the heart and soul of work, home, and creative endeavors through a radical, fresh return to ancient ways of living the soulful life.", Harpercollins, 1996, 6, Paperback / softback. New. The poems in this collection comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time, these poems struggle to conceive of the beautiful and the hopeful in some way that can escape the purely naive., 6<

2014, ISBN: 0820347213

[EAN: 9780820347219], Neubuch, [PU: University of Georgia Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. The poems in What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other comb thr… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780820347219], Neubuch, [PU: University of Georgia Press, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. The poems in What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time, these poems struggle to conceive of the beautiful and the hopeful in some way that can escape the purely naive. They confront loss and wrong, but because "Elegy / is stupid, if you can avoid it," they seek, so much as is possible, not to offer consolation in exchange for what ought not to have happened in the first place.If making the world right with itself would be simultaneously the simplest and the most difficult thing, these poems try to imagine the moment right before that change would become possible and try to imagine the questions we'd be confronted with then, in hope of opening the possibility of imagining the answers., Books<

2019, ISBN: 9780820347219

Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 46 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.11 inches., Independently published, 2019, 6, Paperback / softback. New. The poems in this collection comb through … Mehr…

Independently published, 2019. Paperback. New. 46 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.11 inches., Independently published, 2019, 6, Paperback / softback. New. The poems in this collection comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time, these poems struggle to conceive of the beautiful and the hopeful in some way that can escape the purely naive., 6<

2014, ISBN: 0820347213

[EAN: 9780820347219], Neubuch, [PU: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR], POETRY AMERICAN GENERAL, The poems in this collection comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty a… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780820347219], Neubuch, [PU: UNIV OF GEORGIA PR], POETRY AMERICAN GENERAL, The poems in this collection comb through the rubble of everyday life in search of the shards of beauty and hope that might still be found there. At the same time, these poems struggle to conceive of the beautiful and the hopeful in some way that can escape., Books<