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ISBN 978-1-118-28827-6 (paper); 978-1-118-41986-1 (ebk); 978-1-118-42129-1 (ebk);

978-1-118-49624-4 (ebk)

first edition

“When Someone Deeply Listens to You,” John Fox. From Finding What You Didn't Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox. Copyright by John Fox. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“To Be of Use” from Circles on the Water by Marge Piercy. Copyright © 1982 by Marge Piercy. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., and the Wallace Literary Agency, Inc.

“All the Buried Seeds” from The Book of Awakening. Mark Nepo. Copyright by Mark Nepo. Reprinted by permission of the author.

Excerpt from “The Water Wheel” in Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi. San Francisco, Harper San Francisco, 2004.