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Poetry to Calm Your Soul
When life becomes too much to handle, and your stressed beyond belief, find a quiet place, open the pages of this beautiful book, and let the calming power of poetry pour into your soul. What you will discover in this sublime collection are 100 poems that radiate peace, calm, and serenity. 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 Glick, W.S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Galway Kinnell, James Wright, and others. Though they speak with different voices, the poets all invoke a spirit of calm,a spirit that travels through time and space, to soothe the mind and soul of the reader.
- GenresPoetry
160 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2005
About the author
Mimi Khalvati
21 books5 followersMimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran. She grew up on the Isle of Wight, where she attended boarding school from the age of six, and has lived most of her life in England. She trained at Drama Centre London and has worked as an actor and director in the UK and Iran.
She has published eight collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.
She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.
She has published eight collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a Financial Times Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her work has been translated into nine languages and she received a Cholmondeley Award in 2006. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mimi is the founder of The Poetry School and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and has co-edited its three anthologies of new writing published by Enitharmon Press.
She is also a freelance poetry tutor and has worked with arts organisations such as the Arvon Foundation and the South Bank Centre and has taught at universities in the UK, Europe and America.
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September 10, 2012
Read for fun.
I enjoyed it, sure, but it wasn't my favorite collection of poems. There was only a small handful of poems that I identified with and even fewer that I recognized (which is arguably a good thing). Basically, my soul was "calmed," but not as much as I would have liked.
I enjoyed it, sure, but it wasn't my favorite collection of poems. There was only a small handful of poems that I identified with and even fewer that I recognized (which is arguably a good thing). Basically, my soul was "calmed," but not as much as I would have liked.
November 26, 2014
The poems selected for Poetry to Calm your Soul failed to move me in any way, but I wonder if that's the point, given they are meant to be calming?
August 16, 2012
Love it!!!
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