The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
10 best books like The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures (Robert Bly): The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink, Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, The Tree Is Older Than You Are: A Bilingual Gathering of Poems & Stories from Mexico, The Enlightened Heart, Book of My Nights, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Women Poets of China, The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, Teahouse of the Almighty
| Author | Kevin Young |
| ISBN | 1608195511 |
Of...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
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...
| Author | Naomi Shihab Nye |
| ISBN | 0689820879 |
“Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches.”
So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that invites...
| Author | Stephen Mitchell |
• The Upanishads • The Book of Psalms • Lao-tzu • The Bhagavad Gita • Chuang-tzu • The Odes of Solomon • Seng-ts'an • Han-shan •...
| Author | Li-Young Lee |
| ISBN | 1929918089 |
| Author | Carolyn Forché |
| ISBN | 0393309762 |
"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
| Author | Kenneth Rexroth |
| ISBN | 0811208214 |
| Author | Ilya Kaminsky |
| ISBN | 0061583243 |
don’t take you too far
and you are silent
as you tremble
and gaze
at the trellis of your hands.
When the chariot of your imagination
does not lead you into tunnels
lit up with apprehensions
and lightnings
as you remain silent
and...
| Author | Marilyn Sewell |
| ISBN | 0807068497 |
| Author | Patricia Smith |
| ISBN | 1566891930 |
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.
“What power. Smith’s poetry is all poetry. And visceral. Her poems get under the skin of their subjects. Their passion and empathy, their real worldliness, are blockbuster.”—Marvin Bell
“I was...
| Author | Catherine Bowman |
| ISBN | 0375713158 |
| Author | J.D. McClatchy |
| ISBN | 0679741151 |
| Author | Yehuda Amichai |
| ISBN | 0156030500 |
| Author | Lucille Clifton |
| ISBN | 1880238888 |
Lucille Clifton is gone but her legacy of simple, honestly felt, seemingly spontaneously written poems about the live of ordinary people who become icons almost by accident will live on, especially through the collection of her works in this award winning...
| Author | David Whyte |
| ISBN | 0962152439 |
The House of Belonging
"I awoke
this morning
in the gold light
turning this way
and that
thinking for
a moment
it was one
day
like any other.
But
the veil had gone
from my
darkened heart
and
I...
| Author | Natasha Trethewey |
| ISBN | 1555973094 |
In this widely celebrated debut collection of poems, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, caught in the act of earning a living and managing their households. Small moments taken...
| Author | Ellen Bass |
| ISBN | 1556592558 |
Poems for the Millennium, Vol. 2: Modern and Postmodern Poetry from Postwar to Millennium
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520208641 |
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0812972961 |
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary...
| Author | Mark Hart |
| ISBN | 0867166770 |
Too many young Catholics experience their faith as Mark Hart did: They rarely...
State of the Union: Fifty Political Poems
| Author | Matthew Zapruder |
| ISBN | 1933517336 |
“Walking...