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The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.

Where do we ?nd magic? Peace? Connection?

We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, o?cial archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to livein kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.

So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still o?er space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry.

In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and mea

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/15/2024
      ISBN13: 9781250321855, 978-1250321855
      ISBN10: 1250321859
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      Literary studies: poetry and poets

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.

      Where do we ?nd magic? Peace? Connection?

      We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, o?cial archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to livein kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.

      So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still o?er space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry.

      In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and mea

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