“This is not a book to read and then forget on a bookshelf. It is a companion to cherish during our own moments of grief, gratitude, and awe. I will keep it close at hand.”

—David Loy, author of Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis

“John Brehm weaves together timeless wisdom and a deep poetic sensibility.”

—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“The Dharma of Poetry is a warm invitation to explore the beauty of our own lives, retrieving a sense of wonder and mystery as we navigate both the immediate and the timeless. John Brehm has done a masterful job in reminding us of the power of our own poetic sensibilities.”

— Joseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace and Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

“No Day at the Beach navigates a world that is by turns tragic, ironic, absurd, stunning, and unpredictably hilarious. In these wise, uncommonly empathic poems, Brehm proves himself to be a true wit for our time.”

—Fred Muratori, author of A Civilization

“In his clear and elegant introduction, John Brehm writes that he hopes these poems will come to be spiritual friends—and that seems to me a wonderful way to meet them… Each time you read one of these poems, a path opens to seeing more precisely, feeling more deeply. You don’t have to be a poet or on any particular spiritual path to appreciate The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy.

—Ellen Bass, author of The Human Line

Help Is on the Way takes readers from the subways of New York City to the savannas of Paleolithic Africa to the transplant ward of Kyoto University Hospital. But whatever their setting, these poems are enlivened by the subtle music, penetrating wit, and remarkable emotional honesty that won high praise for Sea of Faith and constitute John Brehm's singularly engaging voice.

Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often witty head note introducing each author, it is certain to become the definitive anthology of American poetry for our time.

"The poems in Sea of Faith present us with a vivid dramatic voice, one determined to engage with a world that often seems intangible and remote, and to resist a world that seems all too real and disappointing. The speaker here is both self-mocking and self-accepting, taking his concerns seriously but always distant enough from them to regard them as a small part of a larger human story, a story we recognize at once to be our own."

—Carl Dennis, Brittingham Prize judge and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Practical Gods