We are all connected to each other through the ritual of prayer.
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Prayers of Honoring Grief is the third book in Pixie Lighthorse’s prayer trilogy. This book challenges our cultural orientation towards “getting over” loss on a convenient schedule. It asks us to take the time to honor our feelings, so that we may express them and move them through our bodies.
The Art of Losing offers a human connection when we are grieving. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning.
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“Translucent elegies ‘for the city that is leaving forever’ (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who also happens to be one of America’s finest younger poets.”―John Ashbery
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prizewinner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet’s work.