Pierced By A Ray Of Sun: Poems About The Times We Feel Alone

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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

Age Range: 12 and up

Lexile Measure: NP (What's this?)

Hardcover: 105 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; 1st edition (February 1995)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0060236132

ISBN-13: 978-0060236137

Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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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.

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