Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems about the Times We Feel Alone

By Ruth Gordon

Book Overview

Pierced By a Ray of Sun offers a collection of poems about all of us, for we all sometimes feel we are different and alone. Throughout time poets everywhere have described these feelings and have recognized them as a cost of being human and sensitive to ourselves. Ruth Gordon has selected poetry that not only reveals the universality of sometimes feeling lonely and alienated, but also stresses, as the poet Jim Northrup writes, that people have "Toughed it out/Survived." Includes Poems By: Carl Sandburg, May Sarton, Paul Simon, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Keats, William Butler Yeats, Malka Heifetz Tussman, Bob Henry Baber, James Masao Mitsui, Jim Northrup, Dona Luongo Stein

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060236140
• ISBN13: 9780060236144
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, Limited
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

Interesting

As it happens, I was indeed alone as I read the poems in this book. A mixed bag, indeed. However, in the final analysis, there are a handful of astonishing pieces and not a true clinker in the bunch.