The Empty Boat Poems |
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| Author:
| Sowder, Michael |
| Series title: | New Odyssey Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-931112-44-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2004 |
| Publisher: | Truman State University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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"The Empty Boat explores the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of the human relationship to the natural world, asking how nature speaks to us and what wisdom and solace it may offer the tragic aspects of our lives. From haunting poems that give voice to losses - of spouse, father, companions - and seek redemption in wilderness, to those that celebrate ecstatic moments of mystical vision, the book's trajectory moves ever toward Taoist landscapes of thought. The book concludes with the...
More Description"The Empty Boat explores the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of the human relationship to the natural world, asking how nature speaks to us and what wisdom and solace it may offer the tragic aspects of our lives. From haunting poems that give voice to losses - of spouse, father, companions - and seek redemption in wilderness, to those that celebrate ecstatic moments of mystical vision, the book's trajectory moves ever toward Taoist landscapes of thought. The book concludes with the return of love and re-imaginings of the relationship of presence and emptiness in our lives."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved