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Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again

9 best books like Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again (Roger Housden): The White Bone, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Wise Blood, Bright Dead Things, The Dearly Beloved, Why I Wake Early, Blue Iris: Poems and Essays, The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems, The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten

The White Bone
AuthorBarbara Gowdy
ISBN0312264127
A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive.
If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In "The White Bone," a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants,...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
AuthorFrans de Waal
ISBN0393635066
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
Wise Blood
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
ISBN0374530637
Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a "blind" street preacher...
Bright Dead Things
AuthorAda Limon
ISBN1571314717
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”

A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger...
The Dearly Beloved
AuthorCara Wall
Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.

Charles is destined to succeed his...
Why I Wake Early
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068799
The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in...
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0807068837
This is my favourite poem in the collection, not because it's the most exceptional poem, but because it's the poem that wound itself most firmly round my heart, and reminded me of the final days I spent with my grandmother, when she knew and I knew that she was dying, but she chose not to speak of it, but did...
The Trouble With Poetry - And Other Poems
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN0375755217
Playfulness, spare elegance, and wit epitomize the poetry of Billy Collins. With his distinct voice and accessible language, America's two-term Poet Laureate has opened the door to poetry for countless people for whom it might otherwise remain closed.

Like the present book's title, Collins's...
The Ghost Garden: Inside the Lives of Schizophrenia's Feared and Forgotten
AuthorSusan Doherty
ISBN0735276501
A rare work of narrative non-fiction that illuminates a world most of us try not to see: the daily lives of the severely mentally ill, who are medicated, marginalized, locked away and shunned.

Susan Doherty's groundbreaking book brings us a population of lost souls, ill-served by society,...
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