Poetry To Heal Your Blues

It can be hard to share your pain with others when the words for such raw emotions seem impossible to express. When you're deep into the blues, and your world feels dark, find a quiet place, open the pages of this beautiful book, and let the healing power of poetry pour into your soul. What you will discover in this wonderful collection are 100 poems that will take your blues away. They have been chosen with care and thought from the abundant resources of American and international writing. Favorite poets of the past such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Wallace Stevens stand alongside the newer voices of Robert Bly, Louise Glück, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Galway Kinnell, Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Marilyn Hacker, Dorianne Laux, James Wright, and others. Though they all speak with different voices, these poets find their own, miraculous words to expose pain and through this exposure, heal it.

When you feel slightly blue, take a dip in this book and let the healing power of poetry wash over you. Favorite poets of the pst, including Sir Phillip Sydney, Percy Bysshe Shelly and Shakespeare, lie alongside Robert ly, and Marilyn Hacker to make this volume the perfect tonic.

Renowned American poet Marilyn Hacker is the author of many poetry books and has won a number of awards including Winter Numbers (1994)-the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award and Selected Poems-1965-1990 (1994)-Poets' Prize. A former editor of the Kenyon Review, she has received numerous honors and fellowships, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, and the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America. Marilyn teaches creative writing at New York University, and lives in New York and Paris.