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An Unconventional And Inventive Coming-of-age Memoir Organized Around Forty-three Remarkable Poems By Poets Such As Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens And Sylvia Plath, From A Critically Acclaimed New York Times Bestselling Author And Poet. For Jill Bialosky, Certain Poems Stand Out Like Signposts At Pivotal Moments In A Life: The Death Of A Father, Adolescence, First Love, Leaving Home, The Suicide Of A Sister, Marriage, The Birth Of A Child, The Day In New York City The Twin Towers Fell. As Bialosky Narrates These Moments, She Illuminates The Ways In Which Particular Poems Offered Insight, Compassion, And Connection, And Shows How Poetry Can Be A Blueprint For Living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky Recalls When She Encountered Each Formative Poem, And How Its Importance And Meaning Evolved Over Time, Allowing New Insights And Perceptions To Emerge. While Bialosky's Personal Stories Animate Each Poem, They Touch On Many Universal Experiences, From The Awkwardness Of Girlhood, To Crises Of Faith And Identity, From Braving A New Life In A Foreign City To Enduring The Loss Of A Loved One, From Becoming A Parent To Growing Creatively As A Poet And Artist. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky Has Crafted An Engaging And Entirely Original Examination Of A Life While Celebrating The Enduring Value Of Poetry, Not As A Purely Cerebral Activity, But As A Means Of Conveying Personal Experience And As A Source Of Comfort And Intimacy. In Doing So She Brilliantly Illustrates The Ways In Which Poetry Can Be An Integral Part Of Life Itself And Can, In Fact, Save Your Life-- Preface -- Discovery: The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost -- Danger: We Real Cool By Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Wonder: The Star By Jane Taylor And Ann Taylor -- Selfhood: My Shadow By Robert Louis Stevenson, The Swing By Robert Louis Stevenson -- Memory: I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud By William Wordsworth -- Shame: You And Your Whole Race By Langston Hughes, I, Too By Langston Hughes -- Ancestors: Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd -- War: My Child Blossoms Sadly By Yehuda Amichai -- Prayer: Have You Prayed? By Li-young Lee -- Imagination: The Snow Man By Wallace Stevens -- Death: Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening By Robert Frost -- Poetry: Ars Poetica? By Czeslaw Milosz -- Family: January 1, 1965 By Joseph Brodsky, Childhood By Rainer Maria Rilke -- Fathers: Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden --^ Faith: After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes By Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You? By Emily Dickinson, 'hope' Is The Thing With Feathers By Emily Dickinson -- Foreboding: My Papa's Waltz By Theodore Roethke -- Depression: Poppies In October By Sylvia Plath -- Envy: Sonnet 29: When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes By William Shakespeare, Confession By Louise Gluck -- Sexuality: The Sisters Of Sexual Treasure By Sharon Olds -- Escape: Sympathy By Paul Laurence Dunbar -- First Love: Bright Star By John Keats, A Blessing By James Wright -- Mothers: My Mother's Feet By Stanley Plumly -- Friendship: Taking The Hands By Robert Bly, Somewhere I Have Never Travelled,gladly Beyond By E. E. Cummings -- Passion: The Red Coal By Gerald Stern, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why By Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Tropics In New York By Claude Mckay, Heat By Denis Johnson --^ Legacy: Fury By Lucille Clifton, Diving Into The Wreck By Adrienne Rich -- Marriage: Song For The Last Act By Louise Bogan -- Grief: Musee Des Beaux Arts By W. H. Auden, One Art By Elizabeth Bishop -- Suicide: Tulips By Sylvia Plath, Waking In The Blue By Robert Lowell -- Motherhood: The Pomegranate By Eavan Boland, On My First Son By Ben Jonson, Funeral Blues By W. H. Auden, Nick And The Candlestick By Sylvia Plath -- Terror: Try To Praise The Mutilated World By Adam Zagajewski -- Mortality: The Child Is Father To The Man By Gerard Manley Hopkins, My Heart Leaps Up By William Wordsworth -- Mystery: Teachers By W. S. Merwin, Youth By W. S. Merwin. Jill Bialosky. Includes Bibliographical References. From a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet comes "a delightfully hybrid book: part anthology, part critical study, part autobiography" ( Chicago Tribune ) that is organized around fifty-one remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. While Bialosky's personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. Each moment and poem illustrate "not only how to read poetry, but also how to love poetry" ( Christian Science Monitor ). "An emotional, sometimes-wrenching account of how lines of poetry can be lifelines" ( Kirkus Reviews ), Poetry Will Save Your Life is an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so the book brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life. From critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet Jill Bialosky comes an unconventional coming-of-age memoir organized around the forty-three remarkable poems that gave her insight, courage, compassion, and a sense of connection at pivotal moments in her life. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts along her lifes journey. These poems have contributed to her growth as a person, writer, poet, and thinker. Now, take this journey with Bialosky as she introduces you to each of these life-changing poems, recalling when she encountered each one, and how its importance and meaning to her has evolved over time. Witness Jill turning to poetry in dire moments to restore her faith and cope with loss; there are poems she turns to for inspiration and consolation; poems for when she is angry or disillusioned, or when she wants to see into another persons soul. While Jills personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences and life events that all can relate to, from crises of faith to sexual awakening from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. More than a creative chronicle of one womans life, Jills book celebrates the unique and enduring value of poetry as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and connection.