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Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day
Viva Editions
December 2013
On Sale: December 16, 2013
244 pages
ISBN: 1936740737
EAN: 9781936740734
Kindle: B00GL9T4NS
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Non-Fiction
In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler
extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and
electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great
thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with
glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow
restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's
unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard,
Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly
insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle
through the dark of the night. These "night thoughts"
vividly illustrate Alfred North Whitehead's liberating
description of "what we do without solitude" and also evoke
Henry David Thoreau's reverie, "Our truest life is when we
are in dreams awake." The night writers in Cousineau's
vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to
astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and
shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac)
writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the
falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of
melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish
loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love,
and languorously greet the first rays of dawn. Notable night
owls include Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Manley
Hopkins, Jorge Borges and William Blake.
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