Into The Garden: A Wedding Anthology: Poetry and Prose on Love and Marriage - Softcover

Robert Hass; Stephen Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060924691 ISBN 13: 9780060924690

Publisher: Harper Collins, 1994

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 1994 Pages: 240 in Publisher: Harper Collins Poems and Weddings Weddings I have been thinking. Have to do with a moment and marriages have to do with time. As Stephen Mitchell and I read around and talked about this book. our main purpose was to try to find words that would help to deepen and enrich a ceremony. but of course we found ourselves talking and thinking and reading a lot of poems about love and marriage. And these three concerns suggested a shape for a useful introductory essay: first a word about love. then a ief history of the wedding ceremony. and then something about marriage and time.Love first. Here is a little poem by Emily Dickinson. who never married. written probably when she was twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old: Wild Nights-Wild Nights Were I with theeWild Nights should beOur luxury Futile-the Winds-To a Heart in port-Done with...

About this title

Product Description:

For brides and grooms who want to give their weddings new depth and meaning, two acclaimed poet-translators have gathered a stunning collection of poems and prose that will add a unique and personal dimension to the ceremony.

About the Author:

Robert Hass s books of poetry include Sun Under Wood: New Poems, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Czeslaw Milosz, most recently Facing the River, and is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translation, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. His collection Time and Materials won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He lives in California with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman, and teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel. He is married to Byron Katie and co-wrote two of her bestselling books: Loving What Is and A Thousand Names for Joy.When he is not writing, he likes to in no particular order think about writing, think about not writing, not think about writing, and not think about not writing. His favorite color is blue, which happens to be the color of his wife s eyes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0060924691
• ISBN 13: 9780060924690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240