The Resource Poetry will save your life : a memoir, Jill Bialosky
Poetry will save your life : a memoir, Jill Bialosky
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The item Poetry will save your life : a memoir, Jill Bialosky represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Salisbury Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. While Bialosky's personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky has crafted an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so she brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 222 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451693201
- Label
- Poetry will save your life : a memoir
- Title
- Poetry will save your life
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Bialosky
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "An unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around forty-three remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath, from a critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author and poet. For Jill Bialosky, certain poems stand out like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a father, adolescence, first love, leaving home, the suicide of a sister, marriage, the birth of a child, the day in New York City the Twin Towers fell. As Bialosky narrates these moments, she illuminates the ways in which particular poems offered insight, compassion, and connection, and shows how poetry can be a blueprint for living. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. While Bialosky's personal stories animate each poem, they touch on many universal experiences, from the awkwardness of girlhood, to crises of faith and identity, from braving a new life in a foreign city to enduring the loss of a loved one, from becoming a parent to growing creatively as a poet and artist. In Poetry Will Save Your Life, Bialosky has crafted an engaging and entirely original examination of a life while celebrating the enduring value of poetry, not as a purely cerebral activity, but as a means of conveying personal experience and as a source of comfort and intimacy. In doing so she brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bialosky, Jill
- Dewey number
-
- 811/.54
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3552.I19
- LC item number
- Z46 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bialosky, Jill
- Poets, American
- American poetry
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Poetry
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS
- Poetry
- Label
- Poetry will save your life : a memoir, Jill Bialosky
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn980346509
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 222 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451693201
- Lccn
- 2016056306
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)980346509
- Label
- Poetry will save your life : a memoir, Jill Bialosky
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn980346509
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Atria books hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 222 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451693201
- Lccn
- 2016056306
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)980346509
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