Ten Poems for Difficult Times - Roger Housden

In his bestselling Ten Poems series, Roger Housden has shown an uncanny ability to choose and discuss poems that strike at the core of readers' concerns and needs. In this new volume, ten extraordinary poems, along with Housden's incisive essays, bring heartfelt insight and broad perspective both to our personal challenges and to our cultural and collective malaise. Ten Poems for Difficult Times is the perfect gift for oneself or for anyone in need of solace and inspiration.

n n Ten Poems for Difficult Times n n Good Bones by Maggie Smith n The Thing Is by Ellen Bass n The Quarrel by Conrad Aiken n Cutting Loose by William Stafford n Rain Light by W. S. Merwin n How the Light Comes by Jan Richardson n Now You Know the Worst by Wendell Berry n A Brief for the Defense by Jack Gilbert n It's This Way by Nazim Hikmet n Annunciation by Marie Howe