Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (601 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400045630 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.”. Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning.As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, “Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. Any one of the ten poems and, indeed, any one of Housden’s reflections on them, can open, gladden, or pierce your heart. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems to Change Your Life, such as Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, along with contributions from Sharon Olds, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov, and others
If I could give it 10 stars I would Mark Nicholson There's already a great review by G. Merrit of this book so all I want to do is to add my praise. The poem "St. Francis and the Sow" and the commentary by Housden is perhaps the most beautiful, life affirming, soul enriching text I have ever read in my life. To me it is "sacred text". I want to send a copy of it to every one I've ever loved. Almonds for the Heart Markus Youssef Short and easy to read poems along with commentary, a few lines from the poems:"For everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing.""Love means to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things.""Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.""The golden bees are making sweet hon. Opens your heart indeed! I am halfway through reading this book and every poem so far has brought loving tears to my eyes. There is beautiful truth in the poems that resonate and is fodder for meditation Each poem is easily understood, not esoteric at all and I get an immediate visceral reaction, hence the tears. Then the author gives further thoughts into the line
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Selections include Denise Levertov's "The Ache of Marriage," Galway Kinnell's "Saint Francis and the Sow," Naomi Shihab Nye's "Kindness" and Pablo Neruda's "Love Sonnet LXXXIX"; while the poems approach love from different angles, they share extremely "accessible style and language" (a prerequisite for inclusion) and offer an essential instruction to "Wake up and Love!" Housden follows each poem with an enthusiastic and often treacly discussion in which stories from his life weave in and out of a sort of basic emotional exegesis: Kinnell's poem will "give you the feeling of wanting to live large again on the canvas of you life," while with Neruda's, "you will know the tendernessas I knew it this morning while reading this sonnetto my wife in bed." This is a warm-hearted volume, and an encouraging entry point for readers who generally shy away from verse, but many readers may feel that there's a bit too muc