James Crews

How to Love the World (eBook, ePUB)

Poems of Gratitude and Hope

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Produktbeschreibung

This beautifully curated selection of more than 100 uplifting poems of gratitude by well-known and emerging poets, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and more, invites gratefulness into daily life and includes opportunities for reflection and writing, topics for discussion, and reading group questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635863871
• Artikelnr.: 64263157

Autorenporträt

James Crews is the editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies, including The Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness, and How to Love the World, which has over 100,000 copies in print, Healing the Divide, and is the author of is the author of the essay collection, Kindness Will Save the World. He has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, and in People Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, and his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and other journals. Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net

Ross Gay is the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy and four books of poetry. His Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Be Holding won the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Foreword, Ross Gay
The Necessity of Joy, James Crews
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Hope
Ted Kooser, Dandelion
Barbara Crooker, Promise
Amanda Gorman, At the Age of 18 - Ode to Girls of Color
Dorianne Laux, In Any Event
Laura Grace Weldon, Astral Chorus
Garret Keizer, My Daughter's SInging
David Romtvedt, Surprise Breakfast
Ron Wallace, The Facts of Life
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Fifteen Years Later, I See How It Went
Kathryn Hunt, The Newborns
Christen Pagett, Shells
Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Bus Stop
January Gill O'Neil, Hoodie
Terri Kirby Erickson, Angel
Todd Davis, Thankful for Now
Reflective Pause: The Joy of Presence
Barbara Crooker, Autism Poem: The Grid
Diana Whitney, Kindergarten Studies the Human Heart
Gail Newman, Valentine's Day
Abigail Carroll, In Gratitude
Michelle Wiegers, Held Open
David Graham, Listening for Your Name
Heather Swan, Another Day Filled with Sleeves of Light
Annie Lighthart, A Cure against Poisonous Thought
Mary McCue, Forgiveness
Heather Lanier, Two Weeks after a Silent Retreat
Reflective Pause: The Kingdom at Hand
Jane Hirshfield, Today, When I Could Do Nothing
Laura Ann Reed, Red Thyme
Laura Foley, The Once Invisible Garden
James Crews, Down to Earth
Freya Manfred, Old Friends
Brad Peacock, Let It Rain
Molly Fisk, Against Panic
Naomi Shihab Nye, Over the Weather
Paula Gordon Lepp, Notions
Ellen Bass, Any Common Desolation
Reflective Pause: Returning to the World
Mark Nepo, Language, Prayer, and Grace
Jane Hirshfield, The Fish
Patricia Fargnoli, Reincarnate
Linda Hogan, Innocence
Farnaz Fatemi, Everything Is Made of Labor
Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Apple Blossoms
Nancy Miller Gomez, Growing Apples
Danusha Lameris, Aspen
Margaret Hasse, With Trees
Kim Stafford, Shelter in Place
Heather Newman, Missing Key
Michael Kiesow Moore, Climbing the Golden Mountain
Laura Foley, To See It
Jacqueline Jules, Unclouded Vision
Danusha Lameris, Improvement
Reflective Pause: Grateful for Small Victories
Jack Ridl, After Spending the Morning Baking Bread
Wally Swist, Radiance
Kristen Case, Morning
Ross Gay, Wedding Poem
Jehanne Dubrow, Pledge
Angela Narciso Torres, Amores Perros
Noah Davis, Mending
Penny Harter, In the Dark
Nathan Spoon, A Candle in the Night
Francine Marie Tolf, Praise of Darkness
Judith Chalmer, An Essay on Age
Ted Kooser, Easter Morning
Andrea Potos, The Cardinal Reminds Me
Marjorie Saiser, When Life Seems a To-Do List
Lahab Assef Al-Jundi, Moon
Crystal S. Gibbins, Because the Night You Asked
Rob Hunter, September Swim
Joyce Sutphen, What to Do
William Stafford, Any Morning
Reflective Pause: Pieces of Heaven
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, How It Might Continue
Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms
Jessica Gigot, Motherhood
Sarah Freligh, Wondrous
Cathryn Essinger, Summer Apples
Lynne Knight, Third Year of My Mother's Dementia
Heather Swan, Rabbit
Dale Biron, Laughter
January Gill O'Neil, In the Company of Women
Alice Wolf Gilborn, Leaning to the Light
Andrea Potos, I Watched an Angel in the Emergency Room
Alberto Rios, When Giving Is All We Have
Albert Garcia, Offering
Alison Luterman, Too Many to Count
Marjorie Saiser, If I Carry My Father
George Bilgere, Weather
Sally Bliumis-Dunn, Work
Reflective Pause: The Joy of Making
Danusha Lameris, Goldfinches
Connie Wanek, The Lesser Goldfinch
Tony Hoagland, The Word
Barbara Crooker, Tomorrow
Cynthia White, Quail Hollow
Laura Grace Weldon, Compost Happens
Joan Mazza, Part of the Landscape
Andrea Potos, Essential Gratitude
Reflective Pause: The Gratitude List
Laura Foley, Gratitude List
Katherine Williams, The Dog Body of My Soul
Katie Rubenstein, Scratch, Sniff
Mary Elder Jacobsen, Summer Cottage
Jane Kenyon, Coming Home at Twilight in Late Summer
Grace Bauer, Perceptive Prayer
Patricia Fontaine, Sap Icicles
Lucille Clifton, the lesson of the falling leaves
Ted Kooser, A Dervish of Leaves
James Crews, Winter Morning
Tracy K. Smith, The Good Life
Marjorie Saiser, Thanksgiving for Two
Reflective Pause: The Feast of Each Moment
Jeffrey Harrison, Nest
Ellen Bass, Getting into Bed on a December Night
Lisa Coffman, Everybody Made Soups
James Crews, Darkest before Dawn
Brad Peacock, Rosary
Julie Murphy, To Ask
Tess Taylor, There Doesn't Need to Be a Poem
Amy Dryansky, Wingspan
Joy Harjo, Eagle Poem
Terri Kirby Erickson, What Matters
Mark Nepo, In Love with the World
Reading Group Questions and Topics for Discussion
Poet Biographies
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