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The Wonder Paradox: Embracing The Weirdness Of Existence And The Poetry Of Our Lives
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN13:
9780374292744
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The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry. Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. So where shall we find our magic? How do we celebrate milestones? Which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what cant be said? The answer, Jennifer Michael Hechtthe historian, poet, and bestselling author of Doubttells us, is poetry. In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversation with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Hecht offers ways to excavate the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the worldSappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and othersshe blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, ourselves, and poetry. Our capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; The Wonder Paradox celebrates that instinct and that yearning. Like Julia Camerons The Artists Way and Anne Lamotts Bird by Bird, it promises to inspire generations of readers.
- | Author: Jennifer Michael Hecht
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0374292744
- | ISBN-13: 9780374292744
- Author:
- Jennifer Michael Hecht
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Publication Date:
- Mar 07, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 0374292744
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374292744