{"product_id":"poetry-rx-how-50-inspiring-poems-can-heal-and-bring-joy-to-your-life","title":"Poetry Rx: How 50 Inspiring Poems Can Heal and Bring Joy To Your Life","description":"\"I used to believe that poetry did not “speak” to me, but I now see how wrong I was. I lived for 44 years with a husband, a lyricist, whose beautifully crafted, heartfelt lyrics touched my every fiber and continue to uplift and inspire me a decade after his death. The special beauty of Dr. Rosenthal’s book for me is his discussion of what each poem is saying, what the poet was likely feeling and often how the poems helped him personally, as when he left his birth family in South Africa for a rewarding career in the United States.\" - Jane Brody, Author \u0026amp; New York Times Columnist\n\nPoetry to Heal, Inspire and Enjoy\n\nPoetry Rx presents 50 great poems as seen through the eyes of a renowned psychiatrist and New York Times bestseller. In this book, you will find insights into love, sorrow, ecstasy and everything in between: Love in the moment or for a lifetime; love that is fulfilling or addictive; when to break up and how to survive when someone breaks up with you.\n\nSeparate sections deal with responses to the natural world, and the varieties of human experience (such as hope, reconciliation, leaving home, faith, self-actualization, trauma, anger, and the thrill of discovery). Other sections involve finding your way in the world and the search for meaning, as well as the final stages of life.\n\nIn describing this multitude of human experiences, using vignettes from his work and life, Rosenthal serves as a comforting guide to these poetic works of genius. Through his writing, the workings of the mind, as depicted by these gifted writers speak to us as intimately as our closest friends.\n\nRosenthal also delves into the science of mind and brain. Who would have thought, for example, that listening to poetry can cause people to have goosebumps by activating the reward centers of the brain? Yet research shows that to be true.\n\nAnd who were these fascinating poets? In a short biosketch that accompanies each poem, Rosenthal draws connections between the poets and their poems that help us understand the enigmatic minds that gave birth to these masterworks. Altogether, a fulfilling and intriguing must-read for anyone interested in poetry, the mind, self-help and genius.\n\nCONTENTS\n\nIntroduction\n\nPART ONE\nLoving and Losing\n\nChapter One\nIs There an Art to Losing?\nOne Art by Elizabeth Bishop\n\nChapter Two\nCan Love Transform You?\nHow do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning\n\nChapter Three\nThe Heart versus the Mind\nPity me not because the light of dayby Edna St. Vincent Millay\n\nChapter Four\nLove in the Moment\nLullaby by W. H. Auden\n\nChapter Five\nWhen Love Fades\nFailing and Flyingby Jack Gilbert\n\nChapter Six\nGetting Over a Breakup I: Acceptance\nWhy so pale and wan fond lover?by Sir John Suckling\n\nChapter Seven\nGetting Over a Breakup II: Reclaiming Yourself\nLove after Love by Derek Walcott,\n\nChapter Eight\nDeclaring Your Love\nSonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare\n\nChapter Nine\nConsoled by Love\nSonnet 29: When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare\n\nChapter Ten\nIn Praise of the Marriage of True Minds\nSonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare\n\nChapter Eleven\nLoss of a Loved One\nStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (Funeral Blues) by W. H. Auden\n\nChapter Twelve\nWill I Ever Feel Better?\nTime Does Not Bring Relief by Edna St. Vincent Millay\n\nChapter Thirteen\nLove Remembered\nWhen You Are Old by William Butler Yeats\n\nChapter Fourteen\nLove after Death\nRemember by Christina Rossetti,\n\nPART TWO\nThat Inward Eye\n\nChapter Fifteen\nTranscendence in Nature\nDaffodils by William Wordsworth\n\nChapter Sixteen\nThe Memory of Daffodils\nMiracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke\n\nChapter Seventeen\nTranscendence in Body and Mind\nLines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (excerpt) by William Wordsworth\n\nChapter Eighteen\nThe Power of Dark and Light\nThere’s a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson\n\nChapter Nineteen\nIn Praise of Diversity\nPied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins\n\nChapter Twenty\nA Plea to Save the Natural World\nInversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins\n\nChapter Twenty-One\nThe Importance of Being Needed\nStopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost\n\nChapter Twenty-Two\nThe Choices We Make\nThe Road Not Takenby Robert Frost\n\nChapter Twenty-Three\nThe Force of Longing\nSea Feverby John Masefield\n\nChapter Twenty-Four\nFinding Hope in Nature\nThe Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy\n\nPART THREE\nThe Human Experience\n\nChapter Twenty-Five The Power of Hope\n“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson\n\nChapter Twenty-Six\nWelcoming Your Emotions\nThe Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi Translated by Coleman Barks\n\nChapter Twenty-Seven\nThe Healing Power of Reconciliation\nOut beyond Ideas by Jalaluddin Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks)\n\nChapter Twenty-Eight\nLeaving Home\nTraveler, there is no road by Antonio Machado Translated by Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney\n\nChapter Twenty-Nine\nAnd Those You Leave Behind\nLetter to My Mother by Salv\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 172250546X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.172250546X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rosenthal, Norman E.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  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