Poetry Will Save Your Life - by Jill Bialosky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>From a critically acclaimed <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author and poet comes "a delightfully hybrid book: part anthology, part critical study, part autobiography" (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>) that is organized </b><b>around fifty-one remarkable poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Sylvia Plath. </b> <p/>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 <i>Poetry Will Save Your Life, </i> Bialosky recalls when she encountered each formative poem, and how its importance and meaning evolved over time, allowing new insights and perceptions to emerge. <p/>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. Each moment and poem illustrate "not only how to <i>read </i>poetry, but also how to <i>love </i>poetry" (<i>Christian Science Monitor</i>). <p/>"An emotional, sometimes-wrenching account of how lines of poetry can be lifelines" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>), <i>Poetry Will Save Your Life </i>is 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 the book brilliantly illustrates the ways in which poetry can be an integral part of life itself and can, in fact, save your life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A delightfully hybrid book: part anthology, part critical study, part autobiography. . . . candid and canny. . . . Bialosky's erudite and instructive approach to poetry [is] itself a refreshing tonic."-- "Chicago Tribune"<br><br>"A lovely hybrid that blends [Bialosky's] coming-of-age story with engaging literary analysis. . . . Adults and mature teens will find much to love in this book, which demonstrates how poems can become an integral part of life. It also suggests, on every page, the wisdom and deep compassion that make [Bialosky's book] a tremendous asset both to readers and other writers." <p/> -- "The Washington Post"<br><br>"An emotional, sometimes-wrenching account of how lines of poetry can be lifelines."-- "Kirkus"<br><br>"An intimate discussion not only on how to <i>read</i> poetry, but also on how to <i>love</i> poetry. . . .Bialosky convinces us that poetry is alive and ready to breathe with us--through love, loss, joy, pain and the immensity of experience life brings us." -- "Christian Science Monitor"<br><br>"An intimate rendering of a poet's passion for words."-- "Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"<br><br>"Bialosky, a poet and novelist, sees her life broken up not by years, but through poems. Her moving memoir .... shows how poetry can be a powerful tool for healing and understanding."-- "Real Simple"<br><br>"Bialosky's attention to detail and love of language serve the reader well. This is a book to savor."-- "Library Journal"<br><br>"Should you be looking for proof that poetry is balm for the wounded soul, you're likely to find it here."-- "The Forward"<br><br>"Time and again she proves her thesis of survival through the arts. But it is not a work of an essayist but one of a person who believes in the power of art to connect us in our shared humanity."-- "New York Journal of Books"<br><br>"Unusual and affecting...using 51 poems, ranging broadly from nursery rhymes to a Shakespeare sonnet, [Bialosky] sets out to demonstrate how reading and remembering poetry can provide a kind of salvation. . . . Like the weather and politics, the human condition isn't altered by poetry, but this lovely memoir poignantly and credibly shows how it can inspire our acceptance of life." --Hilma Wolitzer "East Hampton Star"<br><br>"<i>Poetry Will Save Your Life</i> is a remarkable and compulsively readable book, one that combines the poignant moments of lived life and the reflected life of words in a wholly original way. Jill Bialosky writes with as much pristine skill about her personal story as she writes about the poems that nurtured and inspired her. The intersection of art and life has rarely been so vividly rendered."--Daphne Merkin, author of This Close to Happy<br><br>"<i>Poetry Will Save Your Life</i> is one of the most moving memoirs I've ever read, but it's so much more. Bialosky does something miraculous: as she shares stories from her life, she shows how specific poems can help all of us make sense of our own lives and the world. Here are classic and contemporary poems that help us see and hear one another more clearly; that speak to us in times of loss and grief; that guide us through our every days. If you've always loved poetry, this book will captivate you. And if you want to love poetry, then this book will open worlds. <i>Poetry Will Save Your Life</i> is itself a life-saving book."--Will Schwalbe, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living<br><br>"Empathic, wise, humane, and consoling, Jill Bialosky's <i>Poetry Will Save Your Life </i>is an engrossing celebration of poetry for any curious reader. Bialosky tells us about the poems that have kept her company over the years--and along the ways she joyfully illuminates both poetry and life itself."--Meghan O'Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye<br><br>"Jill Bialosky writes with a sincerity that would have made Dickinson herself weep. She fights to keep poetry from being lofty and academic, she takes it out of the clouds and brings down to earth. Having an expert guide you to a subject with the humility and enthusiasm of a beginner is as moving as her prose in which she reminds us that she has also been a woman who needed saving, and poetry swept in and gave her back a pulse. She achieves something remarkable in that it feels as though she is revealing herself for our sake, the readers: basically what all the best poetry strives for."--Mary-Louise Parker, author of Dear Mr. You<br><br>"This charming and captivating book ties each moment of the author's development to the transformative verses she read. She allows these poems to organize her deliberate candor about a complex and compelling life."--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree<br><br>"This is the only textbook you will ever need on poetry. It tells you not only <i>how</i> to read poetry, but <i>why </i>to read it, lovingly illustrated by portraits from Bialosky's life so intimate that every passage feels like a private gift, tenderly crafted for the reader's memory, to be cherished for years to come."--Hope Jahren, bestselling author of Lab Girl<br><br>"Unusual and affecting. . . . Using 51 poems, ranging broadly from nursery rhymes to a Shakespeare sonnet, [Bialosky] sets out to demonstrate how reading and remembering poetry can provide a kind of salvation. . . . Like the weather and politics, the human condition isn't altered by poetry, but this lovely memoir poignantly and credibly shows how it can inspire our acceptance of life."--Hilma Wolitzer (East Hampton Star)<br>
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