Binding: Paperback
Description: The Wonder Paradox offers a lively practical and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry. Where do we nd magic? Peace? Connection? We have calendars to mark time communal spaces to bring us together bells to signal hours of contemplation o cial archives to record legacies the wisdom of sages read aloud weekly to map out the right way to live in kindness justice morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now for many religion no longer runs the show. So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still o er space for inquiry communion and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can t be said? Where really are truth and beauty? The answer says The Wonder Paradox is in poetry. In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life Jennifer Michael Hecht o ers ways to mine and adapt the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world Sappho Rumi Shakespeare Issa Tagore Frost Szymborska Angelou and others she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems she helps us better understand those needs our very being and poetry itself. Our capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; The Wonder Paradox celebrates that instinct and that yearning.
Title: The Wonder Paradox Embracing The Weirdness Of Existence And The Poetry Of Our Lives
Author(s): Hecht Jennifer Michael
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Barcode: 9781250321855
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit