Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words

10 best books like Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words (Kim Rosen): The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, The Positive Power Of Negative Thinking, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems, The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Creating Poetry, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry, SoulCollage: An Intuitive Collage Process for Individuals and Groups, Slamming Open the Door

AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393316548
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published...
The Positive Power Of Negative Thinking
AuthorJulie Norem
ISBN0465051391
How often are we urged to "look on the bright side"? From Norman Vincent Peale to the ubiquitous smiley face, optimism has become an essential part of American society. In this long-overdue book, psychologist Julie Norem offers convincing evidence that, for many people, positive thinking is an ineffective...
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060925760
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.

My favorites were:

p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555972667
Otherwise collects a lifetime's work by one of contemporary poetry's most cherished talents. Opening with twenty new poems and including generous selections from Jane Kenyon's four previous books—From Room to Room, The Boat of Quiet Hours, Let Evening Come, and Constance—this collection...
AuthorMīrābāī
Mirabai is a literary and spiritual figure of legendary proportions. Born a princess in the region of Rajasthan in 1498, Mira (as she is more commonly known) fought tradition and celebrated a woman's right to an independent life in her ecstatic poems. Her royal family arranged an early marriage for...
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...
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1582974632
Poets can't impose their will on the muse. That's why it's so important that you write regularly, keep reworking your drafts, and experiment in your writing. This book will help you by offering advice, inspiration, and hundreds of exercises to get you going--all designed to invoke your muse.

With...
AuthorSage Cohen
ISBN1582975574
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life

"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
AuthorSeena B. Frost
SoulCollage™ is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life's questions. Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around,...
AuthorKathleen Sheeder Bonanno
ISBN1882295749
The author's daughter was murdered just as she was beginning her career as a nurse. The entire very short book is a series of poems describing the death, funeral, trial, and aftermath. All the time I was reading it, I had such a confused feeling because the poetry was so beautiful, but the pain was so real,...
AuthorLouise DeSalvo
ISBN0807072435
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
AuthorWilliam Sloane Coffin
ISBN0664229484
Along with MLK, William Sloane Coffin was my greatest inspiration to get involved in activism and nonviolent civil disobedience. The guy's a legend--he was a freedom rider in the 60s, an adamant Vietnam War opponent, and he was out getting arrested for LGBT activism when he was almost 80 years old. He...
AuthorLinda Trichter Metcalf
ISBN0345438582
Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life!

In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her...
AuthorRonald T. Potter-Efron
ISBN1572244488
A Guide to Healthy Anger Expression


How do you express your anger? Do you blow up? Quietly seethe? Or do you try to pretend that you're really not angry at all and just hope the feelings will go away? Most of us express anger in more than one way, but we also tend to be creatures of habit, falling...
On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
AuthorEllen J. Langer
ISBN0345456300
“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.”
–from On Becoming an Artist

On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that...
AuthorStephen Harrod Buhner
ISBN1594773823
The first comprehensive work on nonfiction as an art form

• Shows how nonfiction, especially how-to and self-help, can take on the same power and luminosity as great fiction

• Develops processes to reliably induce the dreaming state from which all writing comes

•...
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN0307405192
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and each new phase of our journey.

That’s why poetry...
This Incredible Need to Believe
AuthorJulia Kristeva
ISBN0231147848
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."

So writes Julia Kristeva...
AuthorJames O. Prochaska
How many times have you thought about starting a diet or quitting smoking without doing anything about it? Or lapsed back into bad habits after hitting a rough spot on the road to recovery?

To uncover the secret to successful personal change, three acclaimed psychologists studied more than...
AuthorAnne Katherine
ISBN0684868067
From the acclaimed author of the perennial favorite Boundaries, Where to Draw the Line is a practical guide to establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries in many different situations.

With every encounter, we either demonstrate that we’ll protect what we value or that we’ll give...
AuthorAlice Herdan-Zuckmayer
ISBN0933050461
The Farm in the Green Mountains is the story of a family finding home halfway across the world from their homeland.
Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband, the playwright Carl Zuckmayer, lived at the heart of intellectual life in Weimar, Germany, counting among their circle Stefan Zweig, Alma...
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