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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Meaning of Everyday Words
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for truth.Beginning with 'Alon ...Show more
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
Category: Languages and Reference
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life.Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation ...Show more
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte
Category: Poetry
Crossing the Unknown Sea shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their work-or find out what their life's work is-this book is essential to navig ...Show more
Ecocide - Kill the Corporation Before It Kills Us by David Whyte
Category: Culture and Ideas | Series: Manchester University Press Ser.
We have reached the point of no return. The existential threat of climate change is now a reality. The world has never been more vulnerable. Yet corporations are already planning a life beyond this point. The business models of fossil fuel giants factor in continued profitability in a scenario of a five ...Show more
Essentials by David Whyte
Category: Poetry
'Great poems,' David Whyte has said, 'are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.' Essentials is a collection of his own best poems, each in their way about capturing the experience itself, whether that is in the daily shifts, the ever-turning seasons or the bigger cycle o ...Show more
Essentials by David Whyte
Category: Poetry
It is not a coincidence that this book will slide easily into your jacket pocket; you'll want to keep it close for unexpected moments, those gifts of small, beckoning spaciousness amidst all our obligations and necessities. In addition to works written over a span of many years, plus one new poem and o ...Show more
Everything Is Waiting for You by David Whyte
Category: Gift
This is David Whyte's fifth book of poetry, following Songs for Coming Home, Where Many Rivers Meet, Fire in the Earth, and House of Belonging.
Heart Aroused: Poetry & The... by Whyte, David
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Only a poet could produce such a provocative analysis of today's widespread disenchantment with business -- or such a daring prescription for using the classics of poetry to revitalize the soul of corporate America.
House of Belonging by David Whyte
Category: Poetry
David Whyte makes his home in the Pacific Northwest, where rain and changeable skies remind him of his other more distant homes : Yorkshire, Wales and Ireland. He travels extensively bringing his own and others' poetry to large audiences. He is one of the few poets to bring his insights to bear on organ ...Show more
Pilgrim by David Whyte
Category: Gift
In this collection, David Whyte looks at the great questions of human life through the eyes of the pilgrim: someone passing through relatively quickly, looking for the biggest context they can find or imagine, someone dependent on friendship, hospitality ...
River Flow: New and Selected Poems (Revised) by David Whyte
Category: Poetry
River Flow contains over one hundred poems selected from five previously published works, together with 23 new poems, including a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator, a meditation of love and benediction for his young daughter, and a cycle of Irish poems that convey David's deep ...Show more