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    Ten Poems for Difficult Times
    Ten Poems for Difficult Times
    Ten Poems for Difficult Times
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    Ten Poems for Difficult Times

    By Roger Housden

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  • The seventh volume in Roger Housden’s bestselling Ten Poems series of gift poetry anthologies, featuring ten remarkable poems and Housden’s brilliant commentary
  • Features poetry by WS Merwin, Wendell Berry, Ellen Bass, William Stafford, Conrad Aiken, Marie Howe and more
  • Housden’s Ten Poems books have sold over 300,000 copies, many of them in the gift market
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateFeb 10, 2018
    ISBN9781608685301
    Ten Poems for Difficult Times
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    Roger Housden

    Roger Housden grew up in the cleft of a Cotswold valley on the edge of Bath, England. From 1986-98 he founded and ran The Open Gate, a conference and workshop center in England that introduced the work of Ram Dass, Thich Naht Hanh, Jacob Needleman, James Hillman, Robert Bly and many others into Europe. His work has been featured many times in O Magazine, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. His first book was published in the U.K. in 1990, and as of 2017, he has published twenty-three books, including four travel books, a novella, Dropping the Struggle, and the best-selling Ten Poems series. He now runs live and online writing workshops with an emphasis on self-discovery and exploration.

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      nice poem. I will like to have a book like this

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