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Risking Everything
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation | Roger Housden
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Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? Mary Oliver This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all. These poems urge us to wake up and love. They also call on us to relinquish our grip on ideas and opinions that confine us and, instead, to risk moving forward into the life that is truly ours. In his selection, Roger Housden has placed strong emphasis on contemporary voices such as the American poet laureate Billy Collins and the Nobel Prizewinners Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney, but the collection also includes some timeless echoes of the past in the form of work by masters such as Goethe, Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson. The tens of thousands of readers of Roger Housdens Ten Poems series will welcome this beautiful harvest of poems that both open the mind and heal the heart. From the Hardcover edition.
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Dogearedcopy
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Mary Oliver, the poet has passed away at the age of 93. I can think of no tribute more eloquent and fitting than the first poem of hers that I ever read, “When Death Comes.” Of particular poignancy is the last stanza (above) and I hope in the “everything” where she is now she can say she was married to amazement. I know that her work has been a part of what has made my life amazing.

#LGPOG

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This is how I'm spending my wild new years! My first game of Risk, with my husband and I've been losing terribly since we started. But hey! I've got Australia and champagne! 😎😂

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The deciduous tree population is rather small in proportion to the evergreens in the area where I live, so instead of colorful leaves, one of the first harbingers of Fall is Starbucks' PSL! I don't care what the haters say, I ❤️ PSLs and look forward to them every year.

I literally finished this book on the last day of Summer and then started carting it around for its #LGPbooktour. And yes, I kept all the bookmarks intact! #FallintoBooks

Lizpixie Yes! Even though it's Spring in Australia, I look forward every year to the PSL every October🎃 6y
MeganAnn Mmmm PSL's are my favorite also! ❤️🎃 6y
luvamystery65 I live in the burbs of Houston TX. We have no fall except that yay the dog days of summer are gone! I ordered a hot chocolate today because "my office is cold!" I eat pumpkin all year round. I make a pumpkin coconut soup I eat for breakfast. Autumn all year round. ;-) 6y
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I read a poem a day aloud (sometimes to a less than an enthusiastic audience) to get a sense of each poem's rhythms and/or flow. Sometimes even a change in the stress of a word in a line can open it all up!

#doggosoflitsy

BarbaraTheBibliophage That face! And how is that a comfortable position? 🐕🐩🐶🐶 7y
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I've been reading a poem a day and by poet; but I hit a wall yesterday with T.S. Eliot. I don't even understand the literary criticism that I had hoped would help me understand what I'm looking at! It's frustrating and humbling; but maybe one day the penny will drop and I'll be able to come back to his works.

(Pictured: Detail of photo of TSE; Keystone Pictures USA/Alamy Stock Photo; Snagged from the PoetryFoundation.org)

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With every poem, I mark lines out, checking, underscoring, bracketing, "❤️"-ing... This copy becoming more and more personal with each pencil line as it delivers up each offering's secrets.

LitHousewife I'm looking forward to that! 7y
Yournewfriendsams I have a feeling this one is going to be awesome when it gets back to @marixa 7y
marixa I can't wait to see it! 7y
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The perfect day 🦋

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What better place to read poetry then at a brewery named dialogue? There isn't any separation between the brews and the dining area, and they have magnets for the kids! The boy is mine, the girl is a friends. They think they are cousins, which they really could pass as ones. ❤
#booksandbrews

britt_brooke Awesome! 7y
Yournewfriendsams Love it! 7y
kspenmoll Great concept! 7y
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An uplifting and warming collection of poems that was beautifully curated. These poems felt like they belonged together and had a prevailing theme of, Be. Here. Now-ness. Very enjoyable and I recommend to keep on-hand for the occasional reality check. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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After a 3.5 hr. car ride to get 3.5 miles (snow in Portland, smh) this book feels like the perfect way to decompress ☺️

Jenshootsweddings Ugh snow traffic is the worst! 7y
Arbol It took me about as long too. I had to make some kava and watch nature videos - brain was complete mush. 7y
Yournewfriendsams @Arbol I hope you were rewarded for your time in the car with a snow day today! (edited) 7y
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Arbol @Yournewfriendsams no walking to the library now, opening at 1pm. It has been a nice walk though.❄️ I was in a bad mood about it but then I heard that my sister in law, nurse at OHSU, rode her bike at 6pm last night from multnomah village to the hospital. That kind of badassery puts things into perspective. 7y
Arbol She rigged. her. tires. with. zip. ties. 😵😱😵🙌🏽👏🏾👍🏽🙈💨🌨❄️🚵🏻‍♀️🏥 and I'm dead 7y
Yournewfriendsams @Arbol that is the ultimate badassery. Good on her 💪🏽 7y
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I don't read much poetry, but after this I want to!! Any recommendations?? This came to me during a time of some big changes and it had some perfect things to tell me. Loved it!!

MrBook I've studied all the older stuff: Keats, Whitman, Donne, Byron. Are you looking for something more modern, like Frost? Or even more modern still? 8y
SusanInTiburon If you like Kabir, you should try Rumi. 8y
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Happiness floats 💜

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