Poetry Will Save Your Life, A Narrative

” An unconventional and innovative coming-of-age memoir arranged around forty-three impressive poems by poets such as Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath … For Jill Bialosky, particular poems stand apart like signposts at pivotal moments in a life: the death of a daddy, teenage years, first love, leaving house, the suicide of a sibling, marital relationship, the birth of a kid, the day in New york city City the Twin Towers fell … she lights up the ways in which particular poems offered insight, empathy, and connection, and demonstrates how poetry can be a blueprint for living”–

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