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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zeitlin, Steven J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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  • 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.