The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence PDF full book. Access full book title The Poetry of Grief, Gratitude, and Reverence by John Brehm. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: John Brehm Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1614298726 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. Includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Lameris, Ada Limon, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, and many more. The editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection.
Author: John Brehm Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1614298726 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. Includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Lameris, Ada Limon, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li-Young Lee, Natasha Trethewey, and many more. The editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection.
Author: John Brehm Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1614298815 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
A new anthology from the editor of the bestselling Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. Explorations on a journey through the darkest and brightest moments of our lives, the poems gathered here are explorations of loss, of thanksgiving, of transformation. Some show a path forward and others simply acknowledge and empathize with where we are, but all are celebrations of poetry’s ability to express what seemed otherwise inexpressible, to touch deep inside our hearts—and also pull ourselves out of our selves and into greater connection with the world around us. Includes poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Danusha Lameris, Ada Limon, Kevin Young, Arthur Sze, Ellen Bass, Li Young-Lee, Natasha Tretheway, and many more. The editor also includes an essay on appreciative attention and links to guided meditations for select poems, offering us a chance to have an even deeper experience of reflection.
Author: Roberta C. Bondi Publisher: ISBN: 9780835813631 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Grief is such a messy thing," Roberta Bondi writes in the introduction. "It fills us with so many ideas and images, memories and fantasies, celebration and bitter regret all at once, all superimposed upon one another. No wonder it wears us out." In this book of poetry and reflections on her mother's death, Bondi acknowledges her grief in the presence of God over the span of a few months. She expresses many conflicting feelings love, pain, anger, guilt, emptiness, confusion, exhaustion, relief that her mother was no longer suffering. As she celebrates her mothers life and wrestles with her own sense of loss and longing, she ponders the mystery of life, death, and Gods presence everyday all around us in nature as well as in relationships. Even though we may feel isolated in our grief, we do not grieve alone, Bondi reminds us. In this firsthand account of her grief, Bondi offers a gift to all who are grieving.
Author: Brian Tierney Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571317724 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 63
Book Description
Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page. With the “corpse of Frost” under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father’s death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips,” a “laugh as good as a scream,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome, but to release. The course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying, these days, to believe again / in people,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices, we see something alluringly, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams, something intimate—hope, however difficult it may be.
Author: Joseph Goldstein Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com ISBN: 1458783502 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 78
Book Description
Love, compassion, and peace - these words are at the heart of all spiritual endeavors. Although we intuitively resonate with their meaning and value, for most of us, the challenge is how to embody what we know; how to transform these words into a vibrant, living practice. In these times of conflict and uncertainty, this transformation is far more than an abstract ideal; it is an urgent necessity. Peace in the world begins with us. This wonderfully appealing offering from one the most trusted elders of Buddhism in the West is a warm and engaging exploration of the ways we can cultivate and manifest peace as wise and skillful action in the world. This charming book is illuminated throughout with lively, joyous, and sometimes even funny citations from a host of contemporary and ancient sources - from the poetry of W.S. Merwin and Galway Kinnell to the haiku of Issa and the great poet-monk Ryokan, from the luminous aspirations of Saint Francis of Assisi to the sage advice of Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama.
Author: Shirley Stokes Jeffries Publisher: One11 Publishing ISBN: 9780998289281 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This book of poetry is a glimpse of the healing process the author, Shirley Stokes Jeffries, went through to accept the loss of several family members, including her daughter. Even in the midst of so much pain, she found peace in her faith in God.
Author: S T Kimbrough Jr. Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1532643748 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner. Many of the poems are autobiographical: about first encounter, marriage, life and love together, and death. The actual physical occurrence of death can be readily described by physicians, but its emotional and life effect is much more illusory. Without question, these poems are simply one person's response to death and grief. They provide no decisive answers on how to respond to either, but if one's open and honest response can help others address such challenges, so be it. The goal of the author is not to provide steps for the grieving, rather through poetry to share the thoughts of the heart and mind as they grapple with death and grief. He avers that through the very difficult process of grieving, which may never completely end, love alone is the key to healing and renewal.
Author: Sandra J. Lindow Publisher: Kelsay Books ISBN: 9781639800292 Category : Languages : en Pages : 66
Book Description
"Unfolding the map of my unknowing," a line from Sandra Lindow's lovely elegiac collection, Chasing Wild Grief, provides an entry point as any to the heartfelt, at times heart-wrenching, but ultimately heartening poems in a book that remembers, mourns, and richly illuminates the life of a beloved companion. Although highly detailed and rich in natural imagery, the tone and language of these poems carry us across the landscape of "wild grief," prompting readers to recall the inevitable partings from their own lives, accomplishing this in a variety of forms and language that finally leave us more celebratory than sorrowful. These poems, like all good elegies, not only navigate the various modes of grief, but ultimately accomplish what the poetry of memory at its best seeks to accomplish, transforming grief into gratitude. -Max Garland, former Poet Laureate of Wisconsin and author of The Word We Used for It With meticulously ordered "consecutive candles," brilliant manipulation of form and strategic use of empty space, Lindow compels us to embrace life before, during, and after the death of a beloved. Subtle. Raw. Authentic. A forced exploration, ". . . each / step turned salt by unshed tears, going / home, unknowing where that is," leading us ". . . past the bedrock of mythology into the plate / tectonics of the aching subterranean world." But she doesn't stop there. She brings herself, and us, back into the realms of hope and living with ". . . ghost / shoes, high stepping into the air." I read these poems again and again, loving them, and her, and Michael - and life and love itself - more each time. Loving deeply makes us vulnerable. We must. We must. -Laurel Winter, World Fantasy and Rhysling award-winning author of Growing Wings and the often anthologized "egg horror poem" These poems speak with quiet reverence for life, death, and the possibilities of renewal, skillfully weaving the natural world and its leavings and rebirths with the ethereal world of loss. Deftly written, her language is lush. She pays attention to how words work together - sound, rhythm, or both. The spiraling DNA of her villanelles and pantoums as well as her artful concrete poems make this collection illuminating instead of sad. These are exquisite poems from a book I'll read again and again. -Karla Huston, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2017-18. Author of Grief Bone and A Theory of Lipstick A splendid fierceness weaves throughout this extraordinary collection of poems about nature, and the nature of grief. Trees become "knotted tibia trunks and phalanges of oak, arbor vitae, and Norway Pine," and a lakeshore becomes backdrop for "water's feral fecundity." Lindow establishes her prosodic dexterity in "The Great Unknowing," a heart-wrenching villanelle about the aftermath of loss, and a scattering of shaped poems give the entire collection an additional dimension. These poems clearly do not seek a palliative for grief, but reveal it as it is: "huge and omnipresent . . . sucking marrow from the bones of the day." -Marilyn L. Taylor, former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and author of Step on a Crack
Author: Edie Hartshorne Publisher: ISBN: 9780979033216 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Can tragedy offer unexpected gifts? Yes, is the inspiring answer in Edie Hartshorne's beautiful NECTAR OF MEMORIES, which chronicles in poems and paintings her painful and illuminating twenty-year odyssey through grief after the senseless death of her 20-year old son. Through her courageous self-reflection, therapist Edie Hartshorne uncovers the depth of human resilience, teaching all of us that within the darkness of death and sorrow live shining jewels of wisdom and healing.
Author: John Brehm
Author: John Brehm
Author: John Brehm
Author: Roberta C. Bondi
Author: Jim Perlman
Author: Brian Tierney
Author: Joseph Goldstein
Author: Shirley Stokes Jeffries
Author: S T Kimbrough Jr.
Author: Sandra J. Lindow
Author: Edie Hartshorne