num_pages: 128
description: In this intimate collection the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted emotionally rich and luminous. In her second poetry collection Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical the spiritual and the wild. She begins with how to poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful married divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of friendship and family and making peace (or not) with death in the many ways it finds us. Some poems reflect on the redemptive powers of art and poetry itself; others consider where everything begins.Closing the book are poems that celebrate natural wondersbirdsong and ghost-flowers ruthless ants clever shellfish coral reefs deadly deserts and thousand-year-old beech treesall speaking to the daring project of belonging to an untamed world beyond ourselves.Altogether these are poems about transcendence: finding breath and lightness in life and the everyday acts of living. Its all terribly easy and as the title suggests not entirely possible. Or at least it is never quite finished. 
language: English
title: How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons
publisher: Harper