Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime

Name: Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
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ISBN: 9781400051137

ISBN-10: 1400051134

ISBN-13: 9781400051137

Edition: 2004

Authors: Roger Housden

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The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and, of course, the ineffable—the things that really matter when the chips are down. He describes these passionate poems as “bread for the soul and fire for the spirit.” The poets Housden has chosen are Billy Collins, Hayden Carruth, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mary Oliver from the United States, D. H. Lawrence and John Keats from England, Rainer Maria Rilke from Germany, Fleur Adcock from New…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 10/26/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Size: 5.70" wide x 7.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Roger Housden gives public recitals of ecstatic poetry from the world's great literary and spiritual traditions. He is the author of 17 books and is a lifelong student of the beauty of the word, including poetry. His previous books include Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People and Travels Through Sacred India.