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The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

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 The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
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A lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry.

Religion once formed the rhythms and structures of society: marking time with calendars, carving out space for contemplation, creating connection, reinforcing legacy and morality. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.

So where shall we find our magic? How do we celebrate milestones? Which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? The answer, Jennifer Michael Hecht--the historian, poet, and bestselling author of Doubt--tells us, is poetry.

In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversation with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Hecht offers ways to excavate the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world--Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others--she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, ourselves, and poetry.

Our capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; The Wonder Paradox celebrates that instinct and that yearning. Like Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird, it promises to inspire generations of readers.


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WONDER PARADOX

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Product Weight: 1.20 lbs
Author: Hecht, Jennifer Michael
Publication Date: 2023-03-07
Language: English
Publisher: FARRAR STRAUSS & GIROUX
Dewey Decimal Classification: 808.1
Number of Units in Package: 1

ISBN: 9780374292744