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100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Edward Hirsch
100 Poems to Break Your Heart Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780544931886

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch Pdf

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering--not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.

100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Edward Hirsch
100 Poems to Break Your Heart Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780544931800

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100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch Pdf

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem Implicit in poetry is the idea that we are enriched by heartbreaks, by the recognition and understanding of suffering—not just our own suffering but also the pain of others. We are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a record. And poets are people who are determined to leave a trace in words, to transform oceanic depths of feeling into art that speaks to others. In 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, poet and advocate Edward Hirsch selects 100 poems, from the nineteenth century to the present, and illuminates them, unpacking context and references to help the reader fully experience the range of emotion and wisdom within these poems. For anyone trying to process grief, loneliness, or fear, this collection of poetry will be your guide in trying times.

How To Read A Poem

Edward Hirsch
How To Read A Poem Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547543727

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How To Read A Poem by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, National Book Critics Circle award-winning distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse from around the world, including work by Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath, among many others, Hirsch discovers the true meaning of their words and ideas and brings their sublime message home into our hearts. "The answer Hirsch gives to the question of how to read as poem is: Ecstatically."—Boston Book Review

Stranger by Night

Edward Hirsch
Stranger by Night Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524711702

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Now in his seventies, the award-winning poet looks back on what was and accepts what is, in a deeply moving and beautiful sequence about what sustains him Beginning with "My Friends Don't Get Buried," the lament of a delinquent mourner as his friends have begun to die, and ending with the plaintive note to self "don't write elegies/anymore," Edward Hirsch takes us backward through the decades in these memory poems of startling immediacy. He recalls the black dress a lover wore when he couldn't yet know the tragedy of her burning spirit; the radiance of an autumn day in Detroit when his students smoked outside, passionately discussing Shelley; the day he got off late from a railyard shift and missed an antiwar demonstration. There are direct and indirect elegies to lost contemporaries like Mark Strand, William Meredith, and, most especially, his longtime compatriot Philip Levine, whom he honors in several poems about daily work in the late mid-century Midwest. As the poet ages and begins to lose his peripheral vision, the world is "stranger by night," but these elegant, heart-stirring poems shed light on a lifetime that inevitably contains both sorrow and joy.

Ten Poems to Open Your Heart

Roger Housden
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart Book PDF

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307421777

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Ten Poems to Open Your Heart by Roger Housden Pdf

Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems to Change Your Life, such as Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, along with contributions from Sharon Olds, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov, and others. Any one of the ten poems and, indeed, any one of Housden’s reflections on them, can open, gladden, or pierce your heart. Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning. As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, “Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. . . . When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.” From the Hardcover edition.

Poet's Choice

Edward Hirsch
Poet s Choice Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0156032678

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Poet's Choice by Edward Hirsch Pdf

A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

Wild Gratitude

Edward Hirsch
Wild Gratitude Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307761989

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Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch Pdf

An excerpt from the poem, Wild Gratitude: "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey, And put my fingers into her clean cat's mouth, And rubbed her swollen belly that will never know kittens, And watched her wriggle onto her side, pawing the air, And listened to her solemn little squeals of delight, I was thinking about the poet, Christopher Smart, Who wanted to kneel down and pray without ceasing In everyone of the splintered London streets, And was locked away in the madhouse at St. Luke's With his sad religious mania, and his wild gratitude, And his grave prayers for the other lunatics, And his great love for his speckled cat, Jeoffry. All day today—August 13, 1983—I remembered how Christopher Smart blessed this same day in August, 1759, For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience."

100 Poems

Seamus Heaney
100 Poems Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571347179

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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney Pdf

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin. He said that one project he would very much like to complete would be to prepare a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to make the selection in his lifetime, and after his passing, the project was initially set aside. But now, at last, it has been returned to once more, and the result is an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the opening by the National Library of Ireland of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, this is a singular, accessible selection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and ahead.

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry

Paul Auster
The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry Book PDF

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780394717487

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The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry by Paul Auster Pdf

During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice

100 Days

Juliane Okot Bitek
100 Days Book PDF

Author : Juliane Okot Bitek
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781772121216

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100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek Pdf

Poems that recall the senseless loss of life and of innocence in Rwanda.

Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

Anthony Holden,Ben Holden
Poems That Make Grown Men Cry Book PDF

Author : Anthony Holden,Ben Holden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781476712772

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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden,Ben Holden Pdf

In this unique poetry anthology, 100 grown men - bestselling authors, poets laureate, actors, producers and other prominent figures from the arts, sciences and politics, share the poems that have moved them to tears.

Gabriel

Edward Hirsch
Gabriel Book PDF

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780385353588

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Gabriel by Edward Hirsch Pdf

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award Never has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the strange vicissitudes and tricks of grief. In propulsive three-line stanzas, he tells the story of how a once unstoppable child, who suffered from various developmental disorders, turned into an irreverent young adult, funny, rebellious, impulsive. Hirsch mixes his tale of Gabriel with the stories of other poets through the centuries who have also lost children, and expresses his feelings through theirs. His landmark poem enters the broad stream of human grief and raises in us the strange hope, even consolation, that we find in the writer’s act of witnessing and transformation. It will be read and reread.

Ten Poems to Change Your Life

Roger Housden
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Book PDF

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307421753

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Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden Pdf

Great poetry calls into question everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace. Through the voices of ten inspiring poets and his own reflections, the author of Sacred America shows how poetry illuminates the eternal feelings and desires that stir the human heart and soul. These poems explore such universal themes as the awakening of wonder, the longing for love, the wisdom of dreams, and the courage required to live an authentic life. In thoughtful commentary on each work, Housden offers glimpses into his personal spiritual journey and invites readers to contemplate the significance of the poet's message in their own lives. In Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Roger Housden shows how these astonishing poems can inspire you to live what you always knew in your bones but never had the words for. "The Journey" by Mary Oliver "Last Night as I Was Sleeping" by Antonio Machado "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman "Zero Circle" by Rumi "The Time Before Death" by Kabir "Ode to My Socks" by Pablo Neruda "Last Gods" by Galway Kinnell "For the Anniversary of My Death" by W. S. Merwin "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott "The Dark Night" by St. John of the Cross

Risking Everything

Roger Housden
Risking Everything Book PDF

Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307421524

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Risking Everything by Roger Housden Pdf

“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prize–winners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housden’s “Ten Poems” series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart.

The Classic Hundred Poems

William Harmon
The Classic Hundred Poems Book PDF

Author : William Harmon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0231112599

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The Classic Hundred Poems by William Harmon Pdf

Contains one hundred of the most anthologized poems in the English language, and includes notes, profiles of the authors, and bibliographic information; presented in chronological order with a glossary, and author, title, and first line indexes.