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Cargando... How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons: Poemspor Barbara Kingsolver
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. What a lovely poetry collection! Many of Kingsolver's poems bring newly layered meaning to everyday events. I particularly responded to her poem about knitting/sheep shearing and her love poem. I walk away with a renewed desire to pause in my life, to examine my world, and to love. Kingsolver uses language so very beautifully, that I reread many passages out loud to myself, just to enjoy her luscious phrasing to my heart's content. Her poetry relaxed me and just plain spoke to me. Very pleased! Poetry, lives lived, lessons learned. Some like letters, some shorter, all wonderful. How to be married, how to be divorced, have a child, even one on knitting. A short tour of Italy, when she takes her mother in law there to visit her childhood home. There are two, however, that stood out for me. How to be hopeful. Much needed, for many besides myself, I believe. I adored this line, "Sometimes you have to stand on an incline where things look possible." These last two lines in "The forests of Antarctica" gave me chills. "You are the world that stirs. This is the world that waits." ARC from edelweiss. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family, and making peace (or not) with death, in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins. Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wonders--birdsong and ghost-flowers, ruthless ants, clever shellfish, coral reefs, deadly deserts, and thousand-year-old beech trees--all speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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