Other Ways to Pray --Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

Nonfiction / Poetry

61 pages

5 Stars

A friend cleaned out his bookshelf the other day and gave me his copy of Different Ways to Pray, because he knows I'd love it and appreciate it. He was so right!

Ms Nye is bi-cultural (American/Palestinian) and finds the commonality in peoples throughout the world. Many of these poems are from a time she spent in South America, there is at least one for her grandmother in Palestine. They show how people the world over pray, not by rote or ritual, but by love and living. 

I have, and have read these books by Nye. Unfortunately, I read them before I started this blog, so do not have reviews posted:

19 Varieties of Gazelle

Yellow Glove

Fuel

Hugging the Jukebox

Mint Snowball

Red Suitcase

Words Under the Words

What Have You Lost? (anthology selected by Naomi Shihab Nye)

Never In a Hurry (essays)

Upstream, selected essays --by Mary Oliver

Nonfiction / essays

187 pages / 1778 KB

5 Stars

I am so sorry I never had the opportunity to meet Ms. Oliver, and so delighted to live in an age of books, where I can have her at my beck and call.

She has long been one of my favorite poets, and now she is also one of my favorite essayists. These essays, like her poems, are of everyday observations – the gull she rescued, the turtle she watched who laid her eggs, the dog who climbed fences and the dog catcher who brought him home. She saw beauty in everythin, and shared it with us.

The news is filled with Covid 19 as it rages around our planet, this book is filled with beauty and peace. It is a perfect antidote to our situation today.

Other books I've read and reviewed by Mary Oliver

Felicity http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2020/01/felicity-by-mary-oliver.html

A Poetry Handbook http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2019/01/a-poetry-handbook-by-mary-oliver.html

New and Selected Poems http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2017/11/new-and-selected-poems-by-mary-oliver.html

Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2020/01/owls-and-other-fantasies-poems-and.html

Wabbits --by Weld Champneys

Nonfiction / poetry

118 pages

5 Stars

This book of light verse is just what the doctor ordered for these stressful times. Some will make you chuckle, some may make you laugh out loud, and some will give you pause for great thoughts.

Poetry Pickles, written with his daughter, Lisa, is marvelous! And Grinner Groaner will, indeed, make you grin—and groan. 

I do believe Ogden Nash would love this book! 

Other books by this author I've reviewed:

 Jabberosity. http://lenoragood.blogspot.com/2019/01/jabberosity-by-weld-champneys.html