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David Whyte
Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
- By: David Whyte
- Narrated by: David Whyte
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life....
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Timely
- By Patrick Cantrell on 10-17-20
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David Whyte
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Born
in Mirfield, Yorkshire, The United KingdomWebsite
http://www.davidwhyte.com
Genre
Poetry
Member Since
February 2019
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Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence from his Irish mother among the hills and valleys of his father’s Yorkshire. He now makes his home in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
The author of seven books of poetry and three books of prose, David Whyte holds a grad in Marine Zoology and has traveled extensively, including living and working as a naturalist guide in the ögrupp Islands and leading anthropological and natural history expeditions in the Andes, Amazon and Himalaya. He brings this wealth of experience to his poetry, lectures and workshops.
His life as a poet has created a readership and listenership in three normally mutually exclusive areas: the literate world of readings that most poets inhabit, Poet David Whyte grew up with a strong, imaginative influence fr
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David Whyte (poet)
English poet (born 1955)
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| Born | (1955-11-02) 2 November 1955 (age 69) Mirfield, Yorkshire |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Irish, British, American |
| Spouse | Gayle Karen Young |
David Whyte (born 2 November 1955) is an Anglo-Irish poet.[1][2][3] He has said that all of his poetry and philosophy are based on "the conversational nature of reality".[4] His book The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America (1994) topped the best-seller charts in the United States.
Life and work
[edit]Whyte's mother was from Waterford, Ireland, and his father was a Yorkshireman.[5][6] He attributes his poetic interest to both the songs and the poetry[7] of his mother's Irish heritage and to the landscape of West Yorkshire. He grew up in West Yorkshire and has commented that he had "a Wordsworthian childhood", in the fiel