Ten Poems to Set You Free
10 best books like Ten Poems to Set You Free (Roger Housden): The Gift, The Book of Night Women, Word to the Wise, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, The Collected Poems, 1957-1982, The Collected Poems, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, Red Bird, One Secret Thing
| Author | Hafez |
| ISBN | 0140195815 |
More than any other Persian poet, it is perhaps Hafiz who accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Tongue of the Invisible."
With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's...
| Author | Marlon James |
| ISBN | 1594488576 |
The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they and she...
It's no-holds-barred murder, in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Hitting the Books.
Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams--but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as gardening...
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0399563245 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.
Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0865471975 |
A longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity...
| Author | Theodore Roethke |
| ISBN | 0385086016 |
There a several poems by Roethke that I quite like. Once in a while I think he is brilliant. But I've decided I can't read collections of his work. There is too much I don't care for, and too much repetition -- primarily repetition of a mood of self-absorption that gets old fast. Lust, guilt, poor you, whatever....
| Author | Rainer Maria Rilke |
| ISBN | 1573225851 |
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he had immersed himself in the spirituality he discovered there. He "received" a series of poems about which he did not speak for a long time - he considered them sacred, and different from anything else he ever...
| Author | Daniel Ladinsky |
| ISBN | 0142196126 |
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
| Author | Mary Oliver |
| ISBN | 0807068926 |
Red bird came all winter / firing up the landscape / as nothing else could. So begins Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, and the image of that fiery bird stays with the reader, appearing in unexpected forms and guises until, in a postscript, he explains himself: "For truly the body needs / a song, a spirit,...
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| ISBN | 0375711775 |
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.
The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion...
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
| Author | Mark Nepo |
| ISBN | 1573241172 |
Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor...
If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar…
If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack…
And if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange...
