{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-w-h-auden","title":"Collected Poems of W. H. Auden","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"slot-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eABOUT\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCOLLECTED POEMS OF W. H. AUDEN\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBetween 1927 and his death in 1973, W. H. Auden endowed poetry in the English language with a new face.  Or rather, with several faces, since his work ranged from the political to the religious, from the urbane to the pastoral, from the mandarin to the invigoratingly plain-spoken.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis collection presents all the poems Auden wished to preserve, in the texts that received his final approval. It includes the full contents of his previous collected editions along with all the later volumes of his shorter poems. Together, these works display the astonishing range of Auden’s voice and the breadth of his concerns, his deep knowledge of the traditions he inherited, and his ability to recast those traditions in modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43666776752354,"sku":"9780679731979","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/products\/9780679731979.jpg?v=1670551988"},{"product_id":"devotions","title":"Devotions","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780399563263 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"767.141\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"slot-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eABOUT\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDEVOTIONS\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThroughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as “far and away, this country’s best selling poet” by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCarefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Oliver’s work from her very first book of poetry,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo Voyage and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFelicity\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-by-author\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot author-also-by 9780399563263 isbn-related show\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-author-also-by\" data-work-author-list=\"44396\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43666777014498,"sku":"9780399563263","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/products\/9780399563263.jpg?v=1671246236"},{"product_id":"upstream","title":"Upstream","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780143130086 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"904.25\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSo begins \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUpstream\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of essays in which revered\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003epoet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, “a place to enter, and in which to feel,” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, “I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUpstream \u003c\/em\u003efollows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley, Wordsworth, Emerson, Poe, and Frost, the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion. Throughout this collection, Oliver positions not just herself upstream but us as well as she encourages us all to keep moving, to lose ourselves in the awe of the unknown, and to give power and time to the creative and whimsical urges that live within us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-in-series\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"#alsoinseries\" id=\"alsoinseries\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-by-author\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ca name=\"#alsobyauthor\" id=\"alsobyauthor\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot author-also-by 9780143130086 isbn-related show\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-author-also-by\" data-work-author-list=\"44396\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43666790744290,"sku":"9780143130086","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/products\/1_0ff25de7-6fe4-47ac-966f-f1965e37f093.jpg?v=1672208705"},{"product_id":"the-essential-rumi-new-expanded-edition","title":"The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis revised and expanded edition of\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Essential Rumi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eincludes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems of Rumi.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThrough his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of thirteenth-century Sufi Mystic Rumi more popular than ever. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Essential Rumi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e continues to be the bestselling of all Rumi books, and the definitive selection of his beautiful, mystical poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43848745124066,"sku":"9780062509598","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/products\/1_4bd41d37-71c4-45dc-978e-05d8667999dd.jpg?v=1676949396"},{"product_id":"copy-of-the-way-i-used-to-be","title":"Above Ground","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA remarkable poetry collection with \"inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom\" (Monica Youn) from Clint Smith, the #1\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow the Word Is Passed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClint Smith’s vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith’s lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children’s lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbove Ground \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis a breathtaking collection that follows Smith's first award-winning book of poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounting Descent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44028267888866,"sku":"9780316543033","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/products\/1_fdd5a335-e5ab-4d4c-ba39-7290c59559ac.webp?v=1681603187"},{"product_id":"chrome-valley-poems","title":"Chrome Valley: Poems","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBoldly lyrical and fiercely honest, Mahogany L. Browne’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e offers an intricate portrait of Black womanhood in America. “We praise their names \/ \u0026amp; the hands that write \/ Praise the mouth that speaks,” she writes in tribute to those who came before her.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrowne captures a quintessential girlhood through the pleasures and pangs of young love: the thrill of skating hip to hip at the roller rink, the heat of holding hands in the dark, and, sometimes, the sting of a palm across the cheek. Friendship, too, comes with its own complex yearnings: “you ain’t had freedom \/ ’til you climb on bus 62 \/ \u0026amp; head to the closest mall \/ for a good seat at the girl fight.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReflections of Browne’s mother, Redbone, bolster the collection with moments of unwavering strength: “give me my mother’s bone structure \/ \u0026amp; her gap tooth slaughter \/ give me her spine―Redbone got a spine for the world.” Other moments explore the inherent anxieties shared among Black mothers, rhythmically intoning names like the tolling of a church bell: “Because Kadiatou Diallo \/ Because Sybrina Fulton \/ Because Valeria Bell \/ Because Mamie Till.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e grapple with the legacies of inherited trauma but also revel in the beauty of the undaunted self-determination passed down from Black woman to Black woman. Transcendent and grounded, funny and furious, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChrome Valley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e brings depth to a movement, solidifying Mahogany L. Browne as one of the most significant poetic voices of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"INGRAM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44064756302050,"sku":"9781324092278","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/files\/1_dada795d-433a-427c-8a73-a89271c7453d.jpg?v=1683320010"},{"product_id":"goldenrod-poems-hardcover","title":"Goldenrod: Poems Hardcover","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER *\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTo read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003engly precious beauty of the present moment.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePeople\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the award-winning poet and bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eYou Could Make This Place Beautiful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKeep Moving,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGood Bones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her breakout bestseller \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKeep Moving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Maggie Smith captured the nation with her “meditations on kindness and hope” (NPR). 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Only Maggie Smith could turn an autocorrect mistake into a line of poetry, musing that her phone “doesn’t observe \/ the high holidays, autocorrecting \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eshana tova\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eshaman tobacco\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \/ Rosh Hashanah to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003erose has hands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.”​\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e called Smith’s “superpower as a writer” her “ability to find the perfect concrete metaphor for inchoate human emotions and explore it with empathy and honesty.” The poems in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoldenrod\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Talking Animals Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44081671962850,"sku":"9781982185060","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/files\/1_03b0053b-e191-4124-9017-9c37cb1eadb1.gif?v=1684718200"},{"product_id":"couplets-a-love-story","title":"Couplets: A Love Story","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. 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Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCall Us What We Carry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"A","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44620986286306,"sku":"9780593465066","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/files\/1_6eca4b9c-23cc-40c1-a875-d50d1e4cb4e0.jpg?v=1702658118"},{"product_id":"the-wonder-of-small-things-poems-of-peace-and-renewal","title":"The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal","description":"\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe editor of the bestselling poetry anthologies\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Love the World\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Path to Kindness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e presents a collection of highly accessible, uplifting poetry celebrating the small wonders and peaceful moments of everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJames Crews, editor of two best-selling poetry anthologies, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow to Love the World\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Path to Kindness, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epresents an all-new collection of highly accessible poems on the theme of celebrating moments of wonder and peace in everyday life. 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