Books by Roger Housden and Complete Book Reviews
Roger Housden, Author . HarperCollins $17.95 (144p) ISBN 978-0-06-008445-5
Housden (Ten Poems to Change Your Life) adds a mystical twist to a young man's search for love in this spare, allegorical tale of a Greek icon painter living in 1950s Italy who makes a pilgrimage to the tomb of 13th-century Sufi poet Jelaluddin...
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Roger Housden, Author . Harmony $20 (239p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8229-2
More than any other artist in history, Rembrandt bears witness to the "eternal joy and struggle of our own human soul and to the poignant bittersweet reality of our physical mortality," Housden (Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime,
etc.) writes in
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Roger Housden, Author Harmony $16.95 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4563-1
The author of Ten Poems to Change Your Life offers personal reflections on poems about love in a slim volume best enjoyed by people who don't ordinarily read poetry. Selections include Denise Levertov's ""The Ache of Marriage,"" Galway Kinnell's ""Sa
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Roger Housden, Author Simon & Schuster $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-84838-9
Housden, a British author and leader of spiritually oriented tours, here narrates his personal journey through the religious landscape of the United States. His tour--a clockwise circle from Billings, Mont., to San Francisco--does not claim to be...
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Roger Housden, Broadway, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-307-58773-2
As a young man, British-American author Housden (Chasing Rumi) found himself drawn to Iran—its poetry, music, and even the signature blue color of its mosques, but only in his 60s was he able to visit the country and attempt to unlock its secrets. "T
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Roger Housden. Sounds True, $21.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-62203-092-7
In today’s culture, in which many view organized religion with suspicion, the spiritual but not religious have struck out on paths not yet taken, making it difficult for them to use religious tradition to relate to spiritual matters. Housden (Ten...
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