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thinking feelingly |
A calendar year of somatic approaches to poetry |
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
"Thinking Feelingly is on my table, beautiful in its manifold presences. I am blessed by the vision of this book, and the contemplation of its hoped-for work in the world."
- Bayo Akómoláfé
"What treasures fill this fine book - the poems, the insights, the invitations... may it do its work in the world widely."
- Jane Hirschfield
"Thinking Feelingly: Somatic Approaches to Poetry deftly and deliberately integrates the lived experience of the body into the process of encountering poetry. Katy Hawkins invites us to notice how a poem can serve as a catalyst for a visceral response to the world that the poet has depicted."
- Rae Johnson
THE VIBE:
“Dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.”
- Walt Whitman
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
- Emily Dickinson
“People love to make big pronouncements about poetry saving us. And I want to believe that, but for now, what I can say is…poetry can make us feel. And right now, maybe that’s enough. It doesn’t have to bring us hope or joy, it just has to remind us that we feel. That we are alive, and here, and feeling the world.” - Ada Limón
Thinking Feelingly explores how poetry might be experienced with the whole self, through emotion, physiology, and intuition. The book selects poems for each week of the calendar year, spends a few pages lingering with them, and offers an embodied practice for engaging them at the level of bone and skin. Hawkins draws from a wide range of somatic techniques, from breathwork to movement to visualizations to way quirkier experiments. You might, for example, be invited to embody Doreen Gildroy's dung beetle as a model of resilience, or mark the sacredness of every single day with Matthew Zapruder's Lamp Day, or learn the Butterfly Hug to practice Ross Gay's notion of delight . These pages want to share shivers with you, relishing poems using the same sense-based capacities with which we actually encounter them. Aligned with emergent liberatory work that seeks to mobilize stuck spots in our current thinking, this project hopes to open up new questions rather than answering old ones. Most centrally: what practices drop poetry into gut feeling?
Anthologized here, you'll find an eclectic gathering of poets:
William Carlos Williams
Jane Hirshfield
Margaret Hasse
Adrie Kusserow
Robert Frost
Octavio Paz
Muriel Rukeyser
Denise Levertov
Ada Limón
Ross Gay
Kazim Ali
Elizabeth Bishop
Conrad Aiken
Patrick Rosal
Craig Santos Perez
Lucille Clifton
Jason Schneiderman
Paisley Rekdal
A.R. Ammons
Gregory Pardlo
Maggie Smith
Dan Albergotti
Devin Kelly
Donika Kelly
Ashley M. Jones
Gustavo Hernandez
Bayo Akomolafe
June Jordan
Gbenga Adesina
Derek Walcott
George Herbert
Tony Hoagland
Aria Aber
Natasha Rao
Marilyn Kallet
Lisel Mueller
Martin Walls
John Blair
Ted Kooser
Rebecca Wee
Ellen Bass
Richard Wilbur
Linda Hogan
Margaret Atwood
Adrienne Rich
Susan Stewart
Elizabeth Bishop
Kim Addonizio
Brad Aaron Modlin
Noah Baldino
Ruth Forman
Thomas Lux
Ama Codjoe
Daniel Nester
Joy Harjo
W.S. Merwin
Marge Piercy
John of Milano
Galway Kinnell
Jennifer Rahim
Wendell Berry
David Whyte
Evie Shockley
Linda Pastan
Marie Ponsot
Czeslow Milosz
John Paul Martinez
Kasey Jueds
Rainer Maria Rilke
Yehuda Amichai
Dion Lissner O’Reilly
Marion Wrenn
Robin Coste Lewis
Matthew Zapruder
Roger Robinson
Robert Pinsky
Carl Dennis
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
James Wright
Theodore Roethke
Louise Erdrich
Ellen Skilton
W. S. Di Piero
Naomi Shihab Nye
Tracy K. Smith
Jane Kenyon
Wallace Stevens
Audre Lorde
Yehuda Amichai
Danusha Laméris
Margaret Atwood
Tamiko Beyer
Billy Collins
Dorianne Laux
Eleanor Stanford
For anyone who loves poetry or who wonders why someone they love loves poetry, Thinking Feelingly hopes to hook you.
Anthologized here, you'll find an eclectic gathering of poets:
William Carlos Williams
Jane Hirshfield
Margaret Hasse
Adrie Kusserow
Robert Frost
Octavio Paz
Muriel Rukeyser
Denise Levertov
Ada Limón
Ross Gay
Kazim Ali
Elizabeth Bishop
Conrad Aiken
Patrick Rosal
Craig Santos Perez
Lucille Clifton
Jason Schneiderman
Paisley Rekdal
A.R. Ammons
Gregory Pardlo
Maggie Smith
Dan Albergotti
Devin Kelly
Donika Kelly
Ashley M. Jones
Gustavo Hernandez
Bayo Akomolafe
June Jordan
Gbenga Adesina
Derek Walcott
George Herbert
Tony Hoagland
Aria Aber
Natasha Rao
Marilyn Kallet
Lisel Mueller
Martin Walls
John Blair
Ted Kooser
Rebecca Wee
Ellen Bass
Richard Wilbur
Linda Hogan
Margaret Atwood
Adrienne Rich
Susan Stewart
Elizabeth Bishop
Kim Addonizio
Brad Aaron Modlin
Noah Baldino
Ruth Forman
Thomas Lux
Ama Codjoe
Daniel Nester
Joy Harjo
W.S. Merwin
Marge Piercy
John of Milano
Galway Kinnell
Jennifer Rahim
Wendell Berry
David Whyte
Evie Shockley
Linda Pastan
Marie Ponsot
Czeslow Milosz
John Paul Martinez
Kasey Jueds
Rainer Maria Rilke
Yehuda Amichai
Dion Lissner O’Reilly
Marion Wrenn
Robin Coste Lewis
Matthew Zapruder
Roger Robinson
Robert Pinsky
Carl Dennis
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
James Wright
Theodore Roethke
Louise Erdrich
Ellen Skilton
W. S. Di Piero
Naomi Shihab Nye
Tracy K. Smith
Jane Kenyon
Wallace Stevens
Audre Lorde
Yehuda Amichai
Danusha Laméris
Margaret Atwood
Tamiko Beyer
Billy Collins
Dorianne Laux
Eleanor Stanford
For anyone who loves poetry or who wonders why someone they love loves poetry, Thinking Feelingly hopes to hook you.
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