How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)Read By Barbara Kingsolver

‘Writing poems is a conundrum for me, not my professional identity, but a passion as deep as memory.' We're pleased to announce Barbara Kingsolver's revelatory poetry collection, How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons). How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) offers emotionally rich reflections on the practical, the spiritual and the wild. The book’s interwoven sections form a carefully patterned whole, from its ‘How to’ poems balancing wry pragmatism with illuminating wisdom, to its quiet, clear-eyed elegies examining death as a vivid slice of life. From start to finish, the poignant meditations in this generous collection trace the complex ties that bind us to one another, and to an untamed world beyond ourselves. In more intimate terms than ever before, Kingsolver dares the reader into a deeper embrace of all that lies between birth and death. ‘Begin with a quailing heart’, she writes, ‘for here you stand on the fault line.’