Description
"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.
Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 03/18/2003
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.88w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9781400047994
ISBN10: 1400047994
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | General
- Poetry | American | General
Author: Roger Housden
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 03/18/2003
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.88w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9781400047994
ISBN10: 1400047994
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | General
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
ROGER HOUSDEN is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Ten Poems to Change Your Life and Ten Poems to Open Your Heart, and also a recent novella, Chasing Rumi. He gives recitals of ecstatic poetry from the world's great literary and spiritual traditions. He lives in Woodstock, New York. You can email him at tenpoems@juno.com.