She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy
She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy
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She Walks in Beauty
A Woman's Journey Through Poems

Author: Caroline Kennedy

Narrator: Caroline Kennedy, Jane Alexander, John Bedford Lloyd, Hope Davis, Campbell Scott

Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 04/05/2011


Synopsis

This power and moving work examines what it means to be a girl, a sister, a mother, a wife—a woman—and all the challenges and cheer it brings to life.

In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman's life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life's journey.

The collection includes works by Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, W. H. Auden, Adrienne Rich, Sandra Cisneros, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, Dorothy Parker, Queen Elizabeth I, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shahib Nye, and W. B. Yeats. Whether it's falling in love, breaking up, friendship, marriage, motherhood, or growing old, She Walks in Beauty is a priceless resource for anyone, male or female, who wants a deeper understanding and appreciation of what it means to be a woman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary-Lisa on August 23, 2021

Life is a moving story, and we move forward in life and every breath, every step we take, culminates in a new experience we add to our story over time. And that is certainly what our lives amount to: a cumulated tapestry of our journey, an ongoing poem that is deep and meaningful and rich, uniquely......more

Goodreads review by Judy on May 24, 2011

I first heard about this book when I watched Caroline Kennedy mix it up, poetry-wise, with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Intrigued, I was glad to see the book appear on the new book shelves at my local library. Checked it out and loved it. Caroline Kennedy edited this book and wrote the int......more

Goodreads review by Isabella on September 13, 2024

i fuckin love poetry man......more

Goodreads review by Carmen on April 28, 2015

This is a collection of poems from Caroline Kennedy. Each 'chapter' includes an introduction by her, and then a smattering of poems covering a single topic. They are: Falling in Love; Making Love; Breaking Up; Marriage; Love Itself; Work; Beauty, Clothes and Things of This World; Motherhood; Silence......more

Goodreads review by Judith on June 02, 2017

I love good poetry and I just forget to add it to my daily life. This is a lovely collection subtitled "A Woman's Journey Through Poems" and it's edited by Caroline Kennedy who selected the poems and wrote an intro to each of the sections. She chose beautifully a mixture of old and new, serious and......more