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Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty

Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty
Author: Grace Schulman
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0811228673

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A beautiful, compact, gift edition of some of the world’s greatest poems about loss and death, to ease the heart of the bereaved Who has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Neruda, Catullus, Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, W. S. Merwin, Lorca, Denise Levertov, Keats, Hart Crane, Michael Palmer, Robert Frost, Hopkins, Hardy, Bei Dao, and Czeslaw Milosz—to name only some of the masters in this slim volume. “The poems in this collection,” as Schulman notes in her introduction, “sing of grief as they praise life.” She notes: “As any bereaved survivor knows, there is no consolation. ‘Time doesn’t heal grief; it emphasizes it,’ wrote Marianne Moore. The loss of a loved one never leaves us. We don’t want it to. In grief, one remembers the beloved. But running beside it, parallel to it, is the joy of existence, the love that causes pain of loss, the loss that enlarges us with the wonder of existence.”


The Marble Bed

The Marble Bed
Author: Grace Schulman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781885983831

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The Sand Dancers, Schulman's eighth collection and her finest to date, radiates wisdom and vision. Exultant even in despair, these are poems that stir us to be strong.


Songs of Joy in the Valley of Tears

Songs of Joy in the Valley of Tears
Author: Jane Ault
Publisher: Choosing Grace
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2021-01-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736492208

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Songs of Joy in the Valley of Tears is about grief related to physical death and about the longing we have for a meaningful connection within safe, loving relationships. It's about our struggle to find that connection and the faith and energy it takes to remain there. Written over a time span of 37years, these 84 poems and related Scriptures describe 12 aspects of grieving. Through the beauty of poetry and the inspiration of Scripture, readers will?Connect in healing ways with their losses?Name and process grief in their unique way?Overcome obstacles that block their path?Discover an oasis of hope, peace, and joy in the midst of their tear-filled valleyA counselor, blogger, and author, Jane Ault writes books, poems, and songs of encouragement for people who desire to grow toward emotional and spiritual maturity-become more like Jesus. Her book, Emotional Freedom: The Choices We Must Make, is available at Amazon and WestBow Press. Her book, Heart Connections: Finding Joy through Openness with God, is available on her website. (https://www.choosinggrace.org/)


Words for Parting

Words for Parting
Author: Sarah Chrisman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978460294

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Love and grief and the two most private, and at the same time the most universal of all human emotions. It is for love that we remember the dead: love of their spirits, love of their vibrancy, love of the good deeds which they performed and which live on after them. The poems in this collection were all written by grieving hearts who have now themselves passed over into that great mystery. We can not truly know what death is, yet we know it will come to all of us. In ancient times when a friend told the philosopher Socrates that his judges had sentenced him to death he responded, "And has not Nature passed the same sentence on them?" Inasmuch as there can ever be any comfort for those left behind, part of it lies in knowing that death is a reflection of life. When it comes we cry, then we take our first faltering steps towards understanding. In time we become accustomed to this manifold enigma which nature has given us, and then ultimately we look towards the future with hope. If this little book of poems may be of some help to those in sorrow by reminding them they are not alone, then it will have done its work. Compiled and edited by Sarah A. Chrisman, author of the Tales of Chetzemoka series, This Victorian Life, and others.


A Thousand Mornings

A Thousand Mornings
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0143124056

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The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.


Henry Jackson Van Dyke...

Henry Jackson Van Dyke...
Author: Henry Van Dyke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1892
Genre: Presbyterian Church
ISBN:

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Crazy Brave

Crazy Brave
Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2012-07-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393073467

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A memoir from the Native American poet describes her youth with an abusive stepfather, becoming a single teen mom, and how she struggled to finally find inner peace and her creative voice.


The Prophet

The Prophet
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Publisher: David De Angelis
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8832502062

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Kahlil Gibran considered The Prophet his greatest achievement. He said: "I think I've never been without The Prophet since I first conceived it in Mount Lebanon. It seems to have been a part of me....I kept the manuscript four years before I delivered it over to my publisher, because I wanted to be sure, I wanted to be very sure, that every word of it was the very best I had to offer." The Chicago Post said of The Prophet: "Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one's ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes....If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man's philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."


Devotions

Devotions
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2020-11-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0399563261

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A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through" for Oprah's Book Club “No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Oliver's exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” —The Washington Post “It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” —Chicago Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career. Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years. Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver's work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.


Japanese Death Poems

Japanese Death Poems
Author:
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1998-04-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 146291649X

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"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." --Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Although the consciousness of death is, in most cultures, very much a part of life, this is perhaps nowhere more true than in Japan, where the approach of death has given rise to a centuries-old tradition of writing jisei, or the "death poem." Such a poem is often written in the very last moments of the poet's life. Hundreds of Japanese death poems, many with a commentary describing the circumstances of the poet's death, have been translated into English here, the vast majority of them for the first time. Yoel Hoffmann explores the attitudes and customs surrounding death in historical and present-day Japan and gives examples of how these have been reflected in the nation's literature in general. The development of writing jisei is then examined--from the longing poems of the early nobility and the more "masculine" verses of the samurai to the satirical death poems of later centuries. Zen Buddhist ideas about death are also described as a preface to the collection of Chinese death poems by Zen monks that are also included. Finally, the last section contains three hundred twenty haiku, some of which have never been assembled before, in English translation and romanized in Japanese.