{"product_id":"the-wonder-paradox-awe-poetry-and-the-meaningful-life-paperback","title":"The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Michael Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere do we find magic? Peace? Connection? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live--in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still offer space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e, is in poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Jennifer Michael Hecht offers ways to mine and adapt the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world--Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others--she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, our very being, and poetry itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur capacity for wonder is one of the greatest joys of being human; \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates that instinct and that yearning.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748984619296,"sku":"9781250321855","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ba90ecef00ae5f04640a24ff58ffc94f.webp?v=1779922097","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-wonder-paradox-awe-poetry-and-the-meaningful-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}