Kavanaugh, James

There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves

Laughing Down Lonely Canyons

"This is a book for the barely brave like me who refuse to abandon their dream... It is for those who want to make of life the joy it was meant to be, who refuse to give up no matter the cost..." James Kavanaugh. Perhaps none of Kavanaugh's poetry books has so powerfully mingled pain and joy, despair and hope, fear and courage. Countless numbers have called it their release to recover from tragedy, divorce, serious illness, addiction, and to begin a new life, or to face death fearlessly.

Will You Be My Friend?

A recently updated and revised edition with a new intro by the author. (Over 2.2 million copies sold). As Kavanaugh says in his introduction: "Friendship is freedom, is flowing, and is rare... It trusts, understands, grows, explores... It does not exhaust or cling, expect or demand. It is and that is enough and it dreams a lot. Will YOU Be My Friend?" Thousands of couples have found the key to their relationship in this book. Individuals who where too frightened to love felt their hearts begin to open. It is probably Kavanaugh's most popular book with students.

Walk Easy on the Earth

Quiet Water: The Inspirational Poems of James Kavanaugh

James Kavanaugh's favorite inspirational reflections, offering courage when life's most difficult passages seem impossible to endure. As said by the author: "For centuries mankind was locked in religious systems, falsely based on a Bible consistently interpreted in myriad ways. Many, perhaps most remain fundamentalist children. Bold reformers in every century spoke another language, until today angry religious myths are losing their power. In the new millennium honest and unpretentious humanness will flourish." As Kavanaugh writes, "There is quiet water in the center of your soul, where the weak can harden and a narrow mind can grow."

America, I Love You but Not Like I Used to: A Ballad

America is a powerful song about our past and what, through a poet's eyes, it has become. Beautifully designed

A Lifetime Isn't Long Enough to Love You

"Kavanaugh's intimate poetry always finds a home in us, but this volume especially. Between these covers he unites the loving boy with the man who yearns to love" Lowell House

Sunshine Days and Foggy Nights

From Loneliness to Love

As the book says, to move from loneliness to love means to take a risk, to create the personal environment and strong support system we need no matter what the price." In a society filled with lonely, anxious and depressed people fighting their own variety of stress, Kavanaugh leads them to a new level of self esteem and courage. Dear Abby says: "I have read all of James Kavanaugh's books and given hundreds as gifts. He deserves to be heard by all of America. He will be." The author says: "This is a book of knowing that love is available and loneliness is a loving signal that it is time to find a friend."

Mystic Fire: The Love Poetry of James Kavanaugh

All the passion and romance and pain of love unfold in this exquisite work. "Love grew like some mystic fire mound my heart." Perhaps the greatest beauty of this book is its balance in the power of physical, motional, and unconditional spiritual love. Hundreds have asked permission to use these poems for their weddings. "Perhaps," says Kavanaugh, "life's only tragedy is never to know a pure and unconditional love. To give such is finally to be alive, to receive such is to be as gods ... Erotic love is a much ignored sacrament and a unique contact with god."