How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
Ross Gay, James Crews
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1 May 2021 US
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9781635863864
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This beautifully curated selection of 100 uplifting poems of gratitude by well-known and emerging poets invites gratefulness into daily life and includes opportunities for reflection and writing, topics for discussion, and reading group questions. More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the U. S. , including Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. How to Love the World, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting. AUTHOR: James Crews is the author of four collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. He is also the editor of the popular Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, The Christian Century, and have been reprinted in Ted Kooser' s American Life in Poetry and featured on Tracy K. Smith' s podcast, The Slowdown. Crews holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked with former U. S. poet laureate Ted Kooser on his weekly newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry," which reaches millions of readers across the world. He teaches poetry at SUNY-Albany and lives with his husband on an organic farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
"How to Love the World is for every one of us who welcomes or misses the fullness of joy and the wholeness of days. " -- Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People' s Poet Laureate, Poetry Foundation "You' ll find lots of poets to love within these pages. . . this book is exactly what we need in these times - or in any. " -- Elizabeth Berg, author of I' ll Be Seeing You and The Story of Arthur Truluv
James Crews is the author of three collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. He is also the editor of the popular Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The New Republic, and The Christian Century, and have been reprinted in former US poet laureate Ted Kooser' s weekly newspaper column, "American Life in Poetry," and featured on Tracy K. Smith' s podcast, The Slowdown. Crews holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He worked with Ted Kooser on "American Life in Poetry," which reaches millions of readers across the world. He teaches poetry at the University at Albany and lives with his husband on an organic farm in Shaftsbury, Vermont. Ross Gay is the author of The Book of Delights, a genre-defying book of essays, and four books of poetry, including his most recent, Be Holding, is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and ' 80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ' 76ers. Gay is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine "Some Call it Ballin' . " A founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project, Gay has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer' s Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.
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ISBN-13: 9781635863864
Published: 1 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC
Publisher: Storey Publishing LLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 208

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