Other Books by Roger Housden
Travels through Sacred India
Sacred America: The Emerging Spirit of the People
Ten Poems to Change Your Life
Chasing Rumi: A Fable about Finding the Heart’s True Desire
Ten Poems to Set You Free
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Redemption
Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems
Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again and Again
Sacred Journeys in a Modern World
Ten Poems to Say Goodbye
Saved by Beauty: Adventures of an American Romantic in Iran
Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage
Keeping the Faith without Religion
Dropping the Struggle: Seven Ways to Love the Life You Have
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CONTENTS
Why Poetry for Difficult Times?
CUTTING LOOSE by William Stafford
HOW THE LIGHT COMES by Jan Richardson
NOW YOU KNOW THE WORST by Wendell Berry
A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE by Jack Gilbert