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What the heart knows : chants, charms & blessings
Title:
What the heart knows : chants, charms & blessings
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
"Calls up ancient forms of the spoken word and translates them into the twenty-first century"--Dust jacket flap.
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
Year Published:
2013
Physical Description:
65 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Chant to repair a friendship -- Come, happiness -- Chant against the dark -- Song of bravery -- A list of things that will set you free -- Sleep charm -- How to find a poem -- Invitation to lost things -- Time spells -- Gift spell -- Invocation for sandcastles -- Invisibility spell -- Song in a strange land -- Starting now -- Lament for teddy -- Where is my body -- Lament for my old life -- Heartless -- Illness: a conversation -- When death comes -- Riding a bike at night -- Blessing on the smell of dog -- Blessing on the curl of cat -- Blessing on the downtrodden -- Blessing from the stars -- Teacher -- Silly love song -- Lake's promise -- I find peace.
Grade Interest level:
7-12
Added Author:
ISBN:
9780544106161
Publisher:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2013]