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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
144 pages; Harmony

"Good poetry has the power to start a fire in your life," writes Housden, who rounds up ten rousing examples from the likes of Mary Oliver and the Indian mystic Kabir, whose "The Time Before Death" serves as a rallying cry: "If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, / do you think / ghosts will do it after?"