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David Whyte’s poetry is like a beckoning hand inviting us to move nearer and follow his intimate voice along the fifty-three poems that are awaiting for us in this book. As a reader and lover of Celtic culture, I could sense and understand how present is David Whyte’s Celtic Irish background in his poetry and how he shares his insights of a parallel world that lives within. As I was progressing in the reading and (re)reading of each of the poems that make the nine chapters of this book, the idea of invitation was gaining strength within me. This invitation…

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