Stressed, Unstressed: Classic Poems to Ease the Mind Contributor(s): Bate, Jonathan (Editor), Byrne, Paula (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0008203865 ISBN-13: 9780008203863 Publisher: William Collins
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" L (0.35 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
Features: Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: Can you be re-lit by poetry? This little book offers everyone one of the oldest of all remedies for stress: the reading of poetry. Intended to help you endure some of your stressful moments and painful experiences, these poems tell us we are not alone. Returned again and again over the centuries by great imaginations are love and death and memory - remembrance of childhood joy, of happy days and beautiful places, of loved ones we have lost or feeling at peace and at one with the natural world. 'Stressed Unstressed' harvests an array of poems on such themes in the hope that they will speak to you when you are processing your worries or when you simply want to fill your mind with different, more positive thoughts. Words can act as drugs, and on the bedside or in a waiting-room this little volume of poetry can help in all sorts of difficult circumstances. So here is a selection of new poems and old, enduring classics and forgotten gems. Next time you are feeling stressed or anxious, worried or sleepless, panicky or unable to cope, 'Stressed Unstressed' invites you to read a poem and join the thousands of others who have read and remembered and loved these poems - to form a very special community. This is bibliotherapy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Byrne, Paula: - Paula Byrne is the author the bestselling biographies 'Perdita', 'Mad World', 'The Real Jane Austen', 'Belle', 'Kick' and 'The Genius of Jane Austen'. She is founder and chief executive of ReLit, the Bibliotherapy Foundation, a charity devoted to the mental health benefits of reading. She is married to Sir Jonathan Bate and lives in Oxford. |
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