How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)
Barbara KingsolverIn this intimate collection, the beloved author of the The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous.
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...
Рік:
2020
Видавництво:
Harper
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0062993089
ISBN 13:
9780062993083
Файл:
EPUB, 637 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2020