The Heart Aroused: Poetry & The Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

David Whyte

ISBN 10: 1932887113 ISBN 13: 9781932887112

Publisher: Many Rivers Press, 2005

Synopsis

Only a poet could produce such a provocative  analysis of today's widespread disenchantment with  business -- or such a daring prescription for using  the classics of poetry to revitalize the soul of  corporate America.

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Review

The call for increased creativity in the workplace brings with it a concomitant challenge: how will the world of cool professionalism stand up to the inevitable heat and volatility that accompanies people's emotional and spiritual lives? It is problematic to assume, poet David Whyte explains, that you can ask people to create and also to behave. The Heart Aroused explores these and related issues in an inspiring, grounded, thought-provoking way, and is the best nonverse book by a poet since Robert Bly's Iron John. Interwoven with carefully selected poems to illustrate Whyte's points, The Heart Aroused is necessary reading for any professional who secretly harbors a poet's soul.

From the Publisher

When The Heart Aroused appeared in hardcover in November 1994, it left readers clamoring for author David Whyte as he crisscrossed the country on the lecture circuit with bestselling authors Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves) and Thomas Moore (Care of the Soul). Now available in Currency paperback, The Heart Aroused is poised to reach a new wave of readers.

In this peerless book, Whyte shows how the language of prophecy, poetry, and enlightenment give voice to the most creative--yet hidden--desires. He shows that the best way to respond to the current call for creativity in organizational life is to overcome habitual fear and reticence and bring full, passionate, creative human souls, with all their urgencies and unnamed longings, right inside the office.

When Whyte, who often consults for corporate clients, walks into an organization, it is not just to advise, strategize, and make recommendations. Instead, he clarifies personal--not organizational--difficulties at work by placing them in the age-old context of poetry and story. To follow Whyte through his brilliant, soulful discussions is to raft the turbulent stream of conflicting currents that make up people's lives inside American organizations.

Only a poet could produce such a provocative analysis of today's widespread disenchantment with business--or such a daring prescription for using the classics of poetry to revitalize the soul of corporate America.The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of theSoul in Corporate America by David Whyte. Copyright © 1994 by DavidWhyte.

Edition details

• Publisher: Many Rivers Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1932887113
• ISBN 13: 9781932887112
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English