Book description
A collection of Lewis’s shorter poetry on a wide range of subjects-God and the pagan deities, unicorns and spaceships, nature, love, age, and reason: “Idea poems which reiterate themes known to have occupied Lewis’s ingenious and provocative mind” (Clyde S. Kilby, New York Times Book Review). Edited and with a…
Why read it?
1 author picked Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
C.S. Lewis will always be one of my favorite authors, but many focus more on his fiction or theology than his poetry.
But I love these poems because they are ones that tackle life, wrestle until they are out of breath, and then retreat to get a better perspective on everything.
Woven into the lines, Lewis’s imagination and thoughtfulness create parables and vignettes that let the weary reader know they are not alone in the storms that often plague this race of life.
From Noah's list on poetry to soften the hard days.
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