Salt + Honey: secular prayers to the human and hedonistic hearts
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692723439 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Beautifully gut-wrenching. Isabel Abbott knows her way around the human heart. In fact, she can draw you the most intimate map of your own perfectly imperfect heart and help you feel things long forgotten. Her images run the gamut from joyful and delicious to earth-shattering and almost too intense to bear.She is our generation's Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich and Erica Jong rolled into one fabulous, vulnerable, truth-speaking woman.I wouldn't order just one copy of S. "Salt + Honey by Isabel Abbott" according to mib. This book of poems is to be read and re-read. It's a voyage and a destination. I love Isabel's writing--she takes you along on her journey; she reaches way back and also forward.she is all you'd want in a poet: woman, lover, mother, child, and creator of phrases. It's all about you and me.It is profound and also simply amazing. Salt & Honey is a GREAT readGive it a spin.. love. The piece that is still resonating is "the I have been on a journey for the last few years and in the last few months I have been accompanied by the writings of women who "appear" to guide me on my way.There is not a poem, thought, longing or word in this book that does not touch me with it's elegance, eloquence, vulnerability, love.The piece that is still resonating is "the owls are not what they seem: possibilities" " How did you know your life belonged to you now? When nothing wa
secular prayers for the human and hedonistic hearts