Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up
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Book Overview "A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poet...
"A generous, heartfelt gift." -- Kirkus (STARRED review)
The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.
We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that wonder with friends and loved ones.
In this beautiful volume, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen reveals she had an evangelical response to learning poetry even as a child and would memorize and recite the works of Edna St Vincent Millay to envelope herself in the poet's deeper emotional landscape.
As Burstyn continued her epic rise through film and theater--eventually winning an Oscar, a Tony, a BAFTA, and an Emmy--poetry gave voice to her experience as no other literary art form could. She never went anywhere without her curated "poetry pack." While waiting on set, in rehearsal, on a train, or just relaxing, she found comfort in verse.
For nearly nine decades, poetry has led Ellen on a life of adventure, from a pilgrimage to Rumi's birthplace to a friendship with Maya Angelou, during which the poet read her work in Ellen's movie trailer, to selecting the poems to join her in love, in motherhood and in grief.
Featuring work by W.B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Oliver, William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe, Rumi, William Ernest Henley, and others, Poetry Says It Better is a perfect daily companion for everyone looking to deepen and add meaning to their life experience. Throughout, Burstyn's charming voice and luminous insights help readers meet her in this poetic celebration--soul to soul.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 272 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPER ONE | ISBN: 0063387689
FormatHardcover
Pages272
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0063387689
EAN9780063387683
PublisherHARPER ONE
Publication Date2026-04-28
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight0.98 Pounds
Length8.0 Inches
Width6.38 Inches
Height1.14 Inches
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