8 Introspective Books That Will Lift You Up
Is acute stress response your coping mechanism of choice? It was for author Barbara Bradley Hagerty, until she sought the advice of a few highly enlightened bedside companions.
By Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Foreword By Elizabeth Alexander
224 pages; Spiegel & Grau
This uplifting anthology of poetry and koanlike quotations from writers across time—Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith among them—reminds us that, in Alexander's words: "The world has always been broken and has always been whole," but within us, "we have everything we need."
224 pages; Spiegel & Grau
This uplifting anthology of poetry and koanlike quotations from writers across time—Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith among them—reminds us that, in Alexander's words: "The world has always been broken and has always been whole," but within us, "we have everything we need."
From the January 2018 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine