{"product_id":"how-to-love-the-world-poems-of-gratitude-and-hope-9781635863864","title":"How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Indie Poetry Bestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What the world needs now \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efeaturing poems from inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith and more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e More and more people are turning to poetry as an antidote to divisiveness, negativity, anxiety, and the frenetic pace of life. \u003ci\u003eHow to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers uplifting, deeply felt, and relatable poems by well-known poets from all walks of life and all parts of the US, including inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, Joy Harjo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, and others. The work of these poets captures the beauty, pleasure, and connection readers hunger for. \u003ci\u003eHow to Love the World\u003c\/i\u003e, which contains new works by Ted Kooser, Mark Nepo, and Jane Hirshfield, invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. With pauses for stillness and invitations for writing and reflection throughout, as well as reading group questions and topics for discussion in the back, this book can be used to facilitate discussion in a classroom or in any group setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Crews\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of several bestselling poetry anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder of Small Things, The Path to Kindness\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e How to Love the World, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has over 100,000 copies in print, \u003ci\u003eHealing the Divide, \u003c\/i\u003eand is the author of is the author of the essay collection, \u003ci\u003eKindness Will Save the World.\u003c\/i\u003e He has been featured on NPR's \u003ci\u003eMorning Edition\u003c\/i\u003e, and in \u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine, The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand his poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Crews lives with his husband in the woods of Southern Vermont. jamescrews.net \u003cbr\u003e Ross Gay is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of the essay collections \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Inciting Joy \u003c\/i\u003eand four books of poetry. His \u003ci\u003eCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude \u003c\/i\u003ewon the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award; and \u003ci\u003eBe Holding \u003c\/i\u003ewon the 2021 PEN America Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Storey Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572098076946,"sku":"9781635863864","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10997ab8-082b-4d40-84b3-2d52c00e3b06.jpg?v=1731966849","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-love-the-world-poems-of-gratitude-and-hope-9781635863864","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}