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Roger Housden gives public recitals of ecstatic poetry from the world's great literary and spiritual traditions. He lives in the Bay Area. He is the author of 17 books and is a lifelong student of the beauty of the word, including poetry. His previous books include Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People and Travels Through Sacred India.
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Risking Everything
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2003
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2001
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2007
Price: $16.95
Every great poem invites us to step beyond what we know, what we think we can dream or dare. Great poetry is a catalyst for change: a change of mind, a change of heart, a change of life- and yes, over and over, again and again, with each new reading, and... Read more >
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Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $16.00
The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: October 26, 2004
Price: $16.00
The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Dancing with Joy
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $20.00
In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal.
For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $20.00
In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal.
For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Ten Poems to Set You Free
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2005
Price: $18.95
“Conventional wisdom,” says Roger Housden, “tells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.” Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.
With... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2005
Price: $18.95
“Conventional wisdom,” says Roger Housden, “tells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.” Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.
With... Read more >
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eBook.
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Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2005
Price: $18.95
“Conventional wisdom,” says Roger Housden, “tells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.” Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.
With... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: December 6, 2005
Price: $18.95
“Conventional wisdom,” says Roger Housden, “tells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.” Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us.
With... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Risking Everything
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $20.00
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver
This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation that move and inspire us all... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can lead to communion and grace.
Through... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.00
The fourth volume in the popular series that began with Ten Poems to Change Your Life, Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime focuses on what it means to be truly human. In it, Roger Housden offers us poems on life and death, happiness, seeing ourselves in relation to the world, and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
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... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Dancing with Joy
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $20.00
In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal.
For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being... Read more >
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 21, 2009
Price: $20.00
In his collection Risking Everything, Housden addressed love’s many aspects. Now, in Dancing with Joy, he assembles 99 poems from 69 poets that celebrate the many colors of joy. Anything can be a catalyst for joy, these poems reveal.
For Wislawa Szymborska, the catalyst is a dream; for Robert Bly, being... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Ten Poems to Set You Free
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2003
Price: $16.00
Ten Poems to Set You Free inspires you to claim the life that is truly yours. In today’s world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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