How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
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What the world needs now is this inspiring poetry anthology-featuring poems from today's most renowned poets.
More and more, people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. These poets capture the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for.
How to Love the World invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere.
Includes a reading group guide that can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.
How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and HopeSale price$16.99
"How to Love the World is a collection of poems meant for the reader to reflect, find peace, and be inspired. Unfortunately, this collection didn't resonate with me. I found most of the poems uninteresting and lacking the emotional connection that I would expect from a collection like this. The collection isn't bad, but there are really only a few standouts for me, and in a collection with such diverse poets, I expected more. Advanced copy provided courtesy of the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review."
— Amief (3/5)
The joy of presence
"“This is the time of loaves and fishes. People are hungry and one good word is bread for a thousand. ” — David Whyte, ‘The House of Belonging’ ‘How to Love the World’ has a heartbeat. It is a passionate anthology which will leave those who read or hear a poem from it feeling less alone and more alive. These are strong, lucid poems which show us how poetry is relevant to our lives and to our experiences of the world, on an everyday as well as a more spiritual level. Showing the power of poetry in celebrating the ordinary miracle, this poignant and evocative anthology takes the reader on a journey around many different aspects of life explored in poems. These poems enact an interplay between thought and feeling, challenging the intellect at the same time as they draw on emotion. The editor, James Crews, writes: “The poems gathered in this book each ask, in their own ways, . . . [a] question, which has more relevance now than ever: Are you happy to be alive?” Here we find uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the United States, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and others, as well as new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield. I have discovered many startling and powerful poets unknown to me (having recently moved to Canada from South Africa) and what I find remarkable is the consistency of excellence throughout the anthology. Stay home and order copies (from independent stores) for everyone you love. A huge thank you to @NetGalley and @StoreyPublishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review."
