The Poetry of Everyday Life : : Storytelling and the Art of Awareness / / Steve Zeitlin.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 7 halftones, 1 line figure
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. POETRY IN PEOPLE
  • 1. Kindred Spirits: Sea of Souls
  • 2. Intimacy in Language: Poetry in Family Expressions
  • 3. Laughter for Dessert: Lightness of Being
  • Part II. POETRY IN PLAY
  • 4. The Poetry of Ping-Pong: The Art in Sport
  • 5. Days of Chess and Backgammon: Life’s Game Board
  • 6. Inventing a Language for Love: Sex as Poetry and Play
  • Part III. POETRY IN SERVICE
  • 7. Poetry on the Porch: A Time Set Aside
  • 8. All My Trials: The Healing Powers of Poems and Tales
  • 9. The AIDS Poets: Living with Dying
  • 10. Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down? September 11 Street Poems
  • 11. The POEMobile Dreams of Peace: Writing with Light
  • 12. Free Market Flavor: Poetry of the Palate
  • 13. The Poetry in Science: Metaphors to Explain Mysteries
  • Part IV. POETRY IN THE LIFE CYCLE
  • 14. Navigating Transitions: Poetry in Rites of Passage
  • 15. The Human Unit of Time: The Space between Memory and Legacy
  • 16. Your Body as Symbol: Written in Ash
  • 17. Intimations of Immortality: The Artist’s Secular Sphere of Spirituality
  • Part V. POETRY IN YOU
  • 18. God Is in the Details: Your Ur-Poem, Your Place Moments
  • 19. Breath on the Mirror: Finding Your Own Voice
  • 20. The Best Stories versus My Story: Shepherding the Word into the World
  • Part VI. POETRY IN STONE
  • 21. The Grease Lamp’s Flicker and Flare: Dark Caves Illuminate
  • 22. Lion’s Gate: Myths as Metaphors
  • 23. Rock and Word: Building a Stone Wall as a Lesson in Poetry
  • For Further Reading
  • Notes
  • Permissions