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Soul Food

by · 2008

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'Soul Food' is a feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit. Drawn from many traditions, ranging from Rumi, Kabir and Blake, to Rilke, Emily Dickinson and Paul Celan, this wide-ranging selection includes enormously varied work by celebrated contemporary poets such as Jane Hirshfield and Denise Levertov, among others.

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thought provokingthought provokingMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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short · 160 pages
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