“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
Joan Didion, The White Album
I believe there is therapeutic value to reading and processing our responses to various texts, and I am partial to poetry as a means of finding language, common ground, perspective, and connection. The poetic form lends itself well to the distilling of larger themes or experiences into moments, images, and emotions that a reader may enter into. Below are a few of my favorite poetry books — books which have moved me and given me a language for living.