Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Condition - Very Good
The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and functions properly. Item may arrive with damaged packaging or be repackaged. It may be marked, have identifying markings on it, or have minor cosmetic damage. It may also be missing some parts/accessories or bundled items.

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

â€œBialoskyâ€™s erudite and instructive approach to poetry [is] itself a refreshing tonic.â€ â€”Chicago Tribune

â€œWisdom and deep compassion...make [Bialoskyâ€™s book] a tremendous asset both to readers and other writers.â€ â€”The Washington Post

An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around fifty-one remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet.

For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge.

While Bialoskyâ€™s personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist.

In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky has crafted an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so she brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life.

Country	USA
Author	Jill Bialosky
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781451693218
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Atria Books
Manufacturer	Atria Books
NumberOfPages	241
PublicationDate	2017-08-15
Publisher	Atria Books
ReleaseDate	2017-08-15
Studio	Atria Books

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

You might also like...