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Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, New Poetry Book

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by Rodger Housden

TD Recommended IconFrom much celebrated, much appreciated Roger Housden comes his latest in his series of special poetry books. Whether you’re a long-time friend or a new acquaintance, Ten Poems to Say Goodbye will be a welcome addition to your poetry collection. I find they make perfect gifts, too.  –D. L. Keur, The Deepening World of Books

AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE FORMATS AT AMAZON.COM

Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, poetry book coverABOUT THIS NEW POETRY BOOK

In Ten Poems to Say Goodbye, the newest addition to the celebrated Ten Poems series, Roger Housden continues to highlight the magic of poetry, this time as it relates to personal loss. But while the selected poems in this volume may focus upon loss and grief, they also reflect solace, respite, and joy.

A goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is rather than what it was. Goodbyes can be poignant, sorrowful, sometimes a relief, and—now and then—even an occasion for joy.

They are always transitions that, when embraced, can be the door to a new life both for ourselves and for others. In this inspiring and consoling volume, Housden encourages readers to embrace poetry as a way of enabling us to better see and appreciate the beauty of the world around and within us.

  • Hardcover: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (February 21, 2012)
  • Language: English

ABOUT THE POET, ROGER HOUSDEN

ROGER HOUSDEN is the author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life; Ten Poems to Open Your Heart; Ten Poems to Set You Free; Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime; How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful, Imperfect Self; Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living; Saved by Beauty; and the novella Chasing Rumi, and is also the editor of Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation and Dancing with Joy. Housden was born in England and now lives in the United States.

You can find Roger on the Net at http://rogerhousden.com/ .

Ruins, a Book of Poetry

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TD Recommended Iconby Margaret Randall

This book of poetry caught my eye when II was over on the University of New Mexico website. Finding some samples, I thought it worthy of a look.  You can see for yourself using the “Look Inside” feature over at Amazon.com. –D. L. Keur, The Deepening

AVAILABLE AT UNMPress.com & AT AMAZON.COM

Ruins, poetry book coverABOUT THIS POETRY BOOK

In this poetry collection, Margaret Randall uses the metaphor of ruins to meditate on time’s movement–through memory, through cities, through the leavings of history, and through the bodies of people who have experienced time’s transformations and traumas.

Writer and social activist Margaret Randall is the author of more than eighty published books, including To Change the World: My Years in Cuba (2009) and, most recently, As If the Empty Chair / Cómo si la silla vacía(a bilingual book of poetry) and First Laugh (essays). She lives in Albuquerque.

Anterooms

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New Poems and Translations

by Richard Wilbur

Hardcover: 80 pages; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (November 12, 2010); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0547358113; ISBN-13: 978-0547358116; Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches

Amazon BUY LINK: Anterooms: New Poems and Translations

Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called “a hero to a new generation of critics” by the New York Times Book Review, and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.

A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human condition through reflections on nature and love.Anterooms also features masterly translations from Mallarmé’s “The Tomb of Edgar Allan Poe,” a previously unpublished Verlaine poem, two poems by Joseph Brodsky, and thirty-seven of Symphosius’s clever Latin riddles.

Whether he is considering a snow shovel and domestic life or playfully considering that “Inside homeowner is the word meow,” Wilbur’s new collection is sure to delight everyone from longtime devotees to casual poetry readers. Exploring the interplay between the everyday and the mythic, the sobering and the lighthearted,Anterooms is nothing less than an event in poetic history and a remarkable addition to a master’s oeuvre.