David Whyte: Essentials
by David Whyte
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"It is not a coincidence that this book will slide easily into your jacket pocket; you'll want to keep it close for unexpected moments, those gifts of small, beckoning spaciousness amidst all our obligations and necessities. In addition to works written over a span of many years, plus one new poem and one new essay, the book contains David's personal reflections for many of the pieces, providing deeper context to its meaning. In some ways an artistic representation of a close circle of show more companionship to the work and to the man : edited by his wife, and designed and typeset by close friends Edward Wates and John Nielson, the book forms an elegant testament to David Whyte's most closely-held understanding - that human life cannot be apportioned out as one thing or another; rather, it is best lived as a living conversation, a way between and beyond, made beautiful by darkness as well as light, at its essence both deeply solitary and profoundly communal."--publisher's description. show lessTags
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David Whyte is the author of the bestselling The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America and Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, as well as seven books of poetry, including River Flow: New Selected Poems. He lives on an island near Seattle, in the Pacific Northwest. Visit his website at show more www.davidwhyte.com. show less
Common Knowledge
- Epigraph
- Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
Che la dirritta via era smarrita.
In the middle of the road of our life
I awoke in a dark wood,
Where the true way was wholly lost
The Inferno
Canto 1, line 1
Trans DW]
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