Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times Daniel Purdy and its organic shape fits

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By: Louise Gluck

Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times Daniel Purdy and its organic shape fitsBy: Neil Astley (ed.) Published by Bloodaxe, 2003 Staying Alive is an international anthology of 500 life affirming poems fired by belief in the human and the spiritual at a time when much in the world feels unreal, inhuman and hollow. These are poems of great personal force connecting our aspirations with our humanity, helping us stay alive to the world and stay true to ourselves. Many people turn to poetry only at unreal times, whether for