Overview
From ancient Greece and Rome up to the present moment, poets have responded with sensitivity and insight to the troubles of the human body and mind. Poems of Healing gathers a treasury of such poems, tracing the many possible journeys of physical and spiritual illness, injury, and recovery, from John Donneās āHymne to God My God, In My Sicknesseā and Emily Dickinsonās āThe Soul has Bandaged momentsā to Eavan Bolandās āAnorexic,ā from W.H. Audenās āMiss Geeā to Lucille Cliftonās āCancer,ā and from D.H. Lawrenceās āThe Ship of Deathā to Rafael Campoās āAntidoteā and Seamus Heaneyās āMiracle.ā Here are poems from around the world, by Sappho, Milton, Baudelaire, Longfellow, Cavafy, and Omar Khayyam; by Stevens, Lowell, and Plath; by Zbigniew Herbert, Louise Bogan, Yehuda Amichai, Mark Strand, and Natalia Toledo. Messages of hope in the midst of paināin such moving poems as Adam Zagajewskiās āTry to Praise the Mutilated World,ā George Herbertās āThe Flower,ā WisÅawa Szymborskaās āThe End and the Beginning,ā Gwendolyn Brooksā āwhen you have forgotten Sunday: the love storyā and Stevie Smithās āAway, Melancholyāāmake this the perfect gift to accompany anyone on a journey of healing.
This book title, Poems of Healing (Miniature Edition), ISBN: 9781101908259, by Karl Kirchwey, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (March 30, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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