LevineOs wit, wisdom, and untamed heart at their best. This delightful book celebrates the long-awaited return to poetry (after 40 years) of the beloved author/teacher, acclaimed worldwide for his work with the terminally ill. It teems with life and timelessness--ranging from hope to awe to gratefulness to wonder and pathos, with skillful evocations of Basho, Lorca, and Rilke.
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Dying, grieving, and love inhabit the poems of Stephen Levine in Breaking the Drought:Visions of Grace (Larson Publications 2007, $15 paper, a collection that delves into themes he has often explored as a teacher of meditation and healing practices. Levine invites a Buddhist sensibility into reflective portraits of red-eyed lime-green frogs, the honeycomb of memory, and other evocative subjects. . . . Levine's verse carries the wisdom of a life lived open to vulnerability, greeting the reader with surprising empathy. (Tricycle )
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"This insightful book has a little something for everyone and is uplifting and fun to read even though many serious topics are covered. Display this with any of Levine's other books to showcase the wide range of his writing talents."
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Refreshingly insightful,
By Soren Gordhamer (Santa Fe, New Mexico) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace (Paperback)
This is great stuff. Reading it, I found myself sinking in, trusting the words to take me on a journey . . . one with rich images, a clear mind, and an open heart. I particularly enjoyed "If Prayer Would Do It" and "I Sought Myself Unsuccessfully."
This is poetry as spiritual teaching. Highly recommended.
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To help people with the healing and grieving process,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace (Paperback)
Stephen Devine has sold over a million books of poetry, all of them seeking to help people with the healing and grieving process and his newest book of poetry, "Breaking The Drought: Visions of Grace" is no different. It grants fans the same creative intuition and poetic sensibility that Levine has become so known and loved for, as he channels his original muse as he opens his heart and invites all to enter. Highly recommended to both poetry lovers and community library poetry collections where it is sure to be a hit. A pinched nerve: A pinched nerve/at the root of the fingers/tried to pick up/more than it could handle/but in the pain/without reserve or wish/to be otherwise/the light./Ah there! Christ in the palm of your hand.
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BREAKING THE DROUGHT...A Warm Shower of Wisdom and Compassion,
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This review is from: Breaking the Drought: Visions of Grace (Paperback)
In Breaking the Drought, Stephen Levine makes a triumphant return to his critically acclaimed roots in poetry. After nearly forty years producing some of the most spiritually influential prose of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (Who Dies?, Meetings at the Edge, A Year to Live, etc.), Stephen offers a collection of powerful poems as heartful, as searingly honest, as insightful, as precise, as spiritually uplifting and perceptually transforming as those of the greatest poets in history.
One of the most gifted spiritual lights and counselors of our time, Stephen's work since the early Seventies has been dedicated to healing the suffering in the human mind and the aching in the human heart. He and his extraordinary wife, Ondrea, have skillfully guided thousand of people toward the unveiling of their own Inner Light. They have spent decades supporting the often unrecognized human yearning to bask and flourish in the brilliance of that Light. They have given love and compassion graciously, gracefully, and generously without expectation of reward or personal gain. Their wisdom and kindness are legendary in the hearts of those who have had the great blessing of coming into their orbit. Praised by spiritual luminaries like Ram Dass, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Jack Kornfield, and many others, Stephen now comes full circle . . . back to the simple profundity of poetic words . . . inspired by a lifetime of listening deeply to the wounds of others, and applying the one true healing balm . . . love, wisdom, and compassionate presence . . . flowing softly and freely from heart-to-heart.
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