House of Belonging
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers Press
River Flow: New & Selected Poems 1984-2007
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers
David Whyte's body of work reflects the depth and breadth of a maturing artist, taking its readers on a passage through time and place, allowing us to bear witness to the constellation of difficulties, triumphs, adventures, losses, hopes and revelations that have shaped one particular human life. RIVER FLOW contains over one hundred poems selected from five previously published works, together with twenty-three new poems, including a tribute to an Ethiopian woman navigating her first escalator, a meditation of love and benediction for his young daughter, and a cycle of Irish poems that convey his deep love of the land and life-long appreciation for its wisdom. Within its covers are poems to be read and reread, poems that are sure to become companions on our own passage through the turbulent waters of a well-lived, well-loved life.
Midlife and the Great Unknown
by David Whyte
from Sounds True
David Whyte — Yorkshire born poet and bestselling author of The Heart Aroused and Crossing the Unknown Sea — brought the poetic imagination to the most unlikely place: the strategic, corporate world. Now, with Midlife and the Great Unknown, Whyte shows listeners how the language of poetry can be our guide through the unexplored terrain of our middle years of our lives. With over 75 million people between the ages of 35 and 55 living in the United States today, David Whyte inspires a wide new audience, offering ways to bring courage and clarity to face what he calls the "fierce edges" of our lives. This program is distilled from his popular six-session set Clear Mind, Wild Heart.
Everything Is Waiting for You
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers Pr
Where Many Rivers Meet: Poems
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers Press
Fire in the Earth
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers Press
The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
by David Whyte
from Doubleday Business
The call for increased creativity in the workplace brings with it a concomitant challenge: how will the world of cool professionalism stand up to the inevitable heat and volatility that accompanies people's emotional and spiritual lives? It is problematic to assume, poet David Whyte explains, that you can ask people to create and also to behave. The Heart Aroused explores these and related issues in an inspiring, grounded, thought-provoking way, and is the best nonverse book by a poet since Robert Bly's Iron John. Interwoven with carefully selected poems to illustrate Whyte's points, The Heart Aroused is necessary reading for any professional who secretly harbors a poet's soul.
Only a poet could produce such a provocative  analysis of today's widespread disenchantment with  business -- or such a daring prescription for using  the classics of poetry to revitalize the soul of  corporate America.
Songs for Coming Home: Poems
by David Whyte
from Many Rivers Press
Clear Mind, Wild Heart
by David Whyte
from Sounds True
At the Fierce Edges of Your Life, Where Will You Turn?
"In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry has held the power to lend us courage ... to give us the vision of those who endured ... and to hazard ourselves boldly at the "fierce edges" of our lives. On "Clear Mind, Wild Heart" you will join this acclaimed poet and teacher to engage with the poetic imagination as your companion and guide for the difficult terrain we are all traversing.
Poetry, teaches Whyte, offers immediate and powerful tools unique from any other tradition. It can help us to see beyond the fragile surfaces of our lives, open us to the universal cycles and patterns that shape our lives, and awaken our conversation with what has been called the Untouchable, the Numinous, or the Eternal.
"Clear Mind, Wild Heart" guides you into the wellspring of this living poetic tradition through six hours of exploration and poetry with David Whyte, including the verses of such inspired voices as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, W. B. Yeats, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, Antonio Machado, and others. Through their words, you will discover how to "apprentice yourself to beauty" and find a place of belonging where you can hold loss and grief, the challenges of change, and the wonder of new discovery and adventure.
"The language of poetry takes us outside of our small selves and calls us to look at ourselves and the world with open eyes," teaches David Whyte. Whether you are a lifelong poetry lover or new to its insights and pleasures, "Clear Mind, Wild Heart" is an inspiring guide to answering that call.
"Clear Mind, Wild Heart" highlights:
• Finding the courage to hazard yourself in the world
• Emily Dickinson on the "aliveness" of words
• Conversing with the unknowable
• The harvest of your attention
• How the language of poetry teaches us a relationship with silence
• Goethe’s "Holy Longing"
• Apprenticing yourself to beauty
• Blake’s reflections on innocence and experience
• Creating a "house of belonging" through speech and imagination
• Work: pilgrimage into identity
• Who are you? How presence shrives you of your old identity
• Encountering the visitations of loss, grief, and defeat
• The poetic spirit in marriage, parenting, and friendship
• Six hours of exploration, as taught in David Whyte’s acclaimed seminars and retreats
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