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Barcode31952002410590
TitleGet me through the next five minutes : odes to being alive / James Parker.
AuthorParker, James, 1968- author
Call NoHEALTH SELF-HELP PAR
CollectionNF Health
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International Standard Book Number 9781324091639 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1324091630 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 158.1 23
Personal Name Parker, James, 1968- author
Title Statement Get me through the next five minutes : odes to being alive / James Parker.
Varying Form of Title Get me through the next 5 minutes
Varying Form of Title Odes to being alive
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2024
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
Physical Description xiii, 216 pages ; 20 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly minor, unexpected, and hyperspecific ("Ode to Running in Movies"). Finally collecting Parker's beloved and much-lauded odes in one place, this volume demonstrates the profound power of the form. Each ode is an exercise in gratitude. Each celebrates the permanent susceptibility of everyday humdrum life to dazzling saturations of divine light: the squirrel in the street, the crying baby, the misplaced cup of tea. Parker's odes are songs of praise, but with a decent amount of complaining in there, too: a human ratio of moans. Varied in length but unified in tone, mostly in prose, sometimes toppling into verse, the odes range across music, movies, literature, psychology, and beyond, all through the lens of Parker's personal history. Gathered together, they form an accidental how-to guide to honoring your own experience-and to finding your own odes."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Self-actualization (Psychology) 4934179
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Gratitude.
Index Term-Genre/Form Lyric poetry. lcgft
Local Subject Heading - Topical Subjects NEW BOOKS 2024.05