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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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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