Part parlor game, part poetry course, The Poetry Oracle harkens back to a time when the muses were invoked for guidance, oracles consulted for wisdom, and decisions were left in the hands of the Gods. With this book you can ask your questions to the Olympians of poetry. Will Jack Kerouac tell you to quit your day job? Will Emily Dickinson guide you toward love? Will Edgar Allan Poe help you find that missing object?

Harkening back to antiquity, when Polyhymnia—the muse of sacred poetry—and Calliope—the muse of epic poetry—were invoked for guidance, each page of this anthology contains three poetic excerpts, chosen for their oracular wisdom. Readers are asked to contemplate a question and then randomly select an excerpt, which will offer revelations and inspiration for further contemplation. Excerpts are drawn from poets throughout the ages, including Hafiz, Dante, Rumi, Lord Tennyson, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Though designed as a prophetic tool, it can also be used as an overview to some of the best poetry ever written.

Each page of The Poetry Oracle is graced with lush art nouveau images and contains excerpts of poems selected from across the ages. Consulting The Poetry Oracle is simple: Readers contemplate a question, close their eyes, and leaf through its pages and choose a passage at random. The Poetry Oracle does the rest. From Sappho to Li Po, from Keats to Whitman, The Poetry Oracle acts not only as a tool for divination, but also an introduction to some of the world’s greatest poets.

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Amber Guetebier, Brenda Knight

288 Pages
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