{"product_id":"solitude-hardcover-1","title":"Solitude - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarmela Ciuraru\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary sanctuary for what Shakespeare called \"sessions of sweet silent thought,\" this exquisite gathering of poems speaks to the consolations of solitude. Here is Wordsworth wandering \"lonely as a cloud\"; Poe confiding \"all I loved, I loved alone\"; Yeats's communion with \"the deep heart's core\"; and Han Shan's heart of a hermit, \"clean as a white lotus.\" From Sir Edward Dyer's \"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is,\" to the spiritual searching of the Transcendentalists, to the meditative verse of Jorie Graham, some of the most indelible poems from every time and culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet's art. The poems collected here, whether reflecting on the soul or on nature, addressing an absent loved one, or honoring the self, form a book of respite and contemplation, and a beautiful tribute to the interior life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarmela Ciuraru\u003c\/b\u003e is the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eFirst Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them, \u003c\/i\u003e and the former editor of the\u003ci\u003e Journal of the Poetry Society of America\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, she lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 6.5 x 4.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352794644729,"sku":"9781400044238","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/W8_tLoW8jf9781400044238_5b374062-e07d-4d69-b7e4-f23c3f648fa8.webp?v=1769815650","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/solitude-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}