"Kim Rosen's work is infinitely more important than it might appear. I have no doubt that our highly distressed society wcould be saved by poetry. Kim tells us here how a poem wakens and nourishes the soul and gives us the insight and sensitivity we need to live as reative individuals and as a peaceful society.
She tells us how and what to read, not just apprecating some surface pleasantness but taking in the life-changing perspectives of real poetry. You will be educated and healed by this book."

Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

Foreword by Eve Ensler

Prologue

Poem: “Love after Love” by Derek Walcott

Invitation

Poem: “Eternity” by Jason Shinder

Chapter 1: Embodying a Poem

Poem: “Poetry” by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid

Chapter 2: How Poetry Saved My Life

Poem: “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by E. E. Cummings

Chapter 3: The Medicine of Poetry

Poem: excerpt from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman

Chapter 4: Choosing a Poem

Poem: “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye

Chapter 5: The Anatomy of a Poem

Poem: “King of the River” by Stanley Kunitz

Chapter 6: Writing Poems on Your Bones

Poem: “My Nana Like the Trees” by Kim Rosen

Chapter 7: The Gift of Forgetting

Poem: “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver

Chapter 8: Undressing Your Voice

Poem: “Against Certainty” by Jane Hirshfield

Chapter 9: Borrowed by the Wind

Poem: “Song of a Man Who Has Come Through” by D. H. Lawrence

Chapter 10: A Sudden Grace

Poem: “Annunciation” by Marie Howe

Epilogue

Further Exploration

The Alchemy of Poetry and Music

Practices

Fifty Poems to Live by Heart

Resources

Gratitudes

Notes