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Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

10 best books like Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality (Marilyn Sewell): Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete, Poetry as Survival, Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, Love Cake, Blood Sugar, The Woman's Comfort Book, The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme, The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Poet's Choice, Collected Poems

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0156028611
This is one of the volumes I had hoarded for National Poetry Month. Alice Walker is better known as the author of The Color Purple, but she has written quite a few poems. These span from 1965 and are highly biographical, from her trip to Kenya to her work in voter registration in Mississippi, through relationship...
Poetry as Survival
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN0820324280
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
AuthorElizabeth Roberts
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...
Love Cake
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN1894770692
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post...
Blood Sugar
AuthorNicole Blackman
ISBN1888451343
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
The Woman's Comfort Book
AuthorJennifer Louden
ISBN0062505319
With over 200 prescriptions for giving yourself a break, this book helps the reader to sort out guilty feelings about self–nurture and to define her comfort/self–nurture needs.

In this book the author delivers a host of creative and comforting programmes like the self–care schedule,...
The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme
AuthorMarge Piercy
ISBN0375704310
Winner of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize

About Marge Piercy's collection of her old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "The Art of Blessing the Day is an exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and...
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
AuthorRobert Bly
Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets
AuthorFlorence Howe
ISBN0060965177
A revised and expanded edition of the classic groundbreaking anthology of 20th-century American women's poetry, representing more than 100 poets from Amy Lowell to Anne Sexton to Rita Dove."This is a fabulous, heavy event: an updated edition of the pioneering and beautiful anthology "No More Masks!,...
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0688177921
Fooling With Words is a collection of interviews of poets conducted by television journalist Bill Moyers at the Dodge Poetry Festival.

The Dodge Poetry Festival seems enormous and a bit weird - audiences in the thousands show up to hear some of the best poets in America read, and they clap and...
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
AuthorAshley Capps
ISBN1931968373
In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe...
The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams
AuthorJames O'Barr
ISBN0345417127
I was looking for the comic and I found this.

The names Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins caught my interest. They had both submitted poems, and the poems are the more better submissions. The stories. though, (and a little bit the art) come across as fan fiction, which is probably inevitable, but gets...
Ballad Divine: Bhagavad-Gita
AuthorDev Bhattacharyya
ISBN1495969835
Ballad-Divine brings back the Bhagavad-Gita in a very easy to read composition. It is an accurate reference of the original and observed facts and uses the same systemic method to divinity. Ballad-Divine is organized around the mainstays of Krishna's philosophy. Themes are repeated throughout...
A Primer of Jungian Psychology
AuthorCalvin Springer Hall
ISBN0452011868
The contributions of Carl Jung to understanding of the human psyche are immense. Starting as Freud's most famous disciple, Jung soon broke away from his mentor to follow his own lines of investigation and discovery. Many of Jung's ideas are now considered fundamentals in the study of the mind, but other,...
Yoga for Anxiety: Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind
AuthorMary Nurriestearns
ISBN1572246510
Many of us face daily demands and overwhelming difficulties that cause seemingly uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear. When you feel this way, it's healing to calm yourself and to reclaim your sense of innate goodness and well-being. For centuries, yoga has offered a quiet retreat away from...
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN1400047994
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver

This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation...
Canyon Solitude: A Woman's Solo River Journey Through the Grand Canyon
AuthorPatricia McCairen
ISBN1580050077
"It's well known that Mother River doesn't like a smart aleck," says Patricia McCairen. Accordingly, she plies her oars with reverence and skill on a sometimes hair-raising solo rafting trip along the Colorado River that winds though the stupendous stone valleys of the American Grand Canyon. Like...
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0307907317
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...
Fruits & Vegetables
AuthorErica Jong
ISBN0030859980
This was a fun, quick read. I know Erica Jong had written Fear of Flying, but I was still surprised by how sexy and funny these poems were. My favorite lines were from "Two More Scenes from the Lives of the Vegetables II: Carrot," which read:
"Actually we believe the carrot to be
God's penis.
That...
Original Fire
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060935340
How weak I have become walking in my heavy shoes.
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I sift my thoughts into this perfect zero,
into the silken core between minus and plus.
I walk through the terminal number
backward, into the negative
where deep snow falls.
Again I am a child. I stand in the snow
and...
Irish Paganism
AuthorMorgan Daimler
ISBN1785351451
Irish Reconstructionist Polytheism is an often misunderstood path, but it is one with great richness and depth for those who follow it. This short introductory book touches on the basic beliefs and practices of Irish Polytheism as well as other important topics for people interested in practicing...
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