Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden

Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden

Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. These ten poems, and Roger Housden's reflections on them, urge us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.
This volume brings together the voices of Thomas Merton, David Whyte, the Basque poet Miguel de Unamuno, Anna Swir from Poland, Stanley Kunitz, the Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, and Jane Hirshfield, as well as three of Housden's favorites, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Naomi Shihab Nye. His luminous essays on the poems show us how to integrate the poets' truth into our own lives.
Roger Housden's love of poetry and life leaps from every page--so much so that his readers feel they have found a guide and mentor through the extraordinary Ten Poems series. He has opened the eyes and hearts of many, not just to the power of poetry, but to the truth and beauty of the life of the soul. What more can one ask?

ROGER HOUSDEN is the best-selling author of the Ten Poems series and the novella Chasing Rumi, among other works. He was born in England and has worked as a writer for the Guardian and a BBC interviewer. Housden moved to the United States in 1998 and presently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Go to www.rogerhousden.com to learn more about him.

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ISBN 13	9781400051120
ISBN 10	1400051126
Title	Ten Poems to Set You Free
Author	Roger Housden
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2003-12-30
Number of pages	144
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