false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179701014m/946850.jpg 946850 3 Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems to Change Your Life, such as Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, along with contributions from Sharon Olds, Wislawa Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, Denise Levertov, and others. Any one of the ten poems and, indeed, any one of Housden&#8217;s reflections on them, can open, gladden, or pierce your heart. <br><br>Through the voices of these ten inspiring poets, and through illustrations from his own life, Housden expresses the tenderness, beauty, joys, and sorrows of love, the presence of which, more than anything else, gives human existence its meaning.<br><br>As Housden says in his eloquent introduction, &#8220;Great poetry happens when the mind is looking the other way and words fall from the sky to shape a moment that would normally be untranslatable. . . . When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.&#8221; 931778 7 1 2003 Ten Poems to Open Your Heart total:39|5:15|4:15|3:7|2:2|1:0| 39 160 66 3 4 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 15:58:39 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 18:01:33 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jan 06 19:18:41 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 19:22:08 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 03 07:36:13 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 01 16:52:53 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 16 06:32:26 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 06:32:26 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2011 Sat Oct 31 10:33:29 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 10:35:18 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 26 09:55:04 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 09:55:04 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 23 16:42:25 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 16:42:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 13 15:50:34 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 17:32:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 23 19:31:37 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 19:31:37 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 18 02:59:20 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 13:34:59 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 02:59:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 12 09:37:09 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 09:37:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 31 13:57:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:57:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 21 08:09:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 08:09:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 03 14:04:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 14:04:00 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jun 12 12:53:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 12:53:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 14 04:06:37 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 04:06:37 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 15 15:51:40 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 13:29:26 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 15:51:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 18:29:25 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 18:29:25 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 03 15:39:51 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 15:39:51 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 29 18:04:23 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 18:04:23 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=946850