In this warm and wise invitation to a poetry-enriched life, atheist poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht shows us how to gather our own collection of poems for daily practices, holidays, celebrations, and even emergencies, all through exploring how world religions, art, and science address the subject of each chapter, introducing a relevant poem, and offering a poetry lesson—from alliteration to Japanese list poems to Romanticism and beyond.
The Wonder Paradox by Jennifer Michael Hecht, (List Price: 30, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 9780374292744, March 2023)
Reviewed by Megan Bell, Underground Books in Carrollton, Georgia