Results for "Hecht, Jennifer Michael"

The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies,... Read More about The Wonder Paradox: Awe, Poetry, and the Meaningful Life

The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies,... Read More about The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

Hecht repurposes texts and creates a magic echo chamber, bringing the lines and lyrics of long-gone friends to the table.... Read More about Who Said

A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is inf... Read More about Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Micha... Read More about Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

A tour de force, Funny is a masterpiece of poetic, as well as philosophic and comic, invention. It creates a musing world, where the issues are philosophical but the focus is always on people, on our most private ways of balancing our accounts. The poems are psychological; tender and humane, an... Read More about Funny (Wisconsin Poetry Series)