The poetry of everyday life : storytelling and the art of awareness /
This is a book of encounters. Part memoir, part essay, and partly a guide to maximizing your capacity for fulfillment and expression, The Poetry of Everyday Life taps into the artistic side of what we often take for granted: the stories we tell, the people we love, the metaphors used by scientists,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Kindred spirits : poetic souls
- Intimacy in language : poetry in family expressions
- Laughter for dessert : lightness of being
- The poetry of ping-pong : the art in sport
- Days of chess and backgammon : life's game board
- Inventing a language for love : sex as poetry and play
- Poetry on the porch : a time set aside
- All my trials : the healing powers of poems and tales
- The AIDS poets : living with dying
- Did you see the ashes come gently falling down : September 11 street poems
- The poemobile dreams of peace : writing with light
- Free market flavor : poetry of the palate
- The poetry in science : metaphors explaining mysteries
- Navigating transitions : poetry in rites of passage
- The human unit of time : the space between memory and legacy
- Your body as symbol : written in ash
- Intimations of immortality : the artist's secular sphere of spirituality
- God is in the details : your ur poem
- Place moments : writing about place in time
- Breath on the mirror : finding your own voice
- The best stories versus my story : shepherding the word into the world
- The grease lamp's flicker and flare : dark caves illuminate
- Lion's gate : myths as metaphors
- Rock and word : building a dry stone wall as a lesson in poetry.