Reduced to Joy Inviting Life's Essential Gift

"Mark's writings possess the power to immediately move us into connection with a subtle and powerful awareness at the deepest, most soulful level. "
--Debra Moffit, author of "Awake in the World" "Poems that have the power to transform your life both light up the mind and warm the heart as they strip your self of pretense and the impermanent. Mark Nepo's poems transmit those transfiguring experiences inside words of beauty. Nepo's poems should carry a warning label: 'These poems are dangerous to your false self.'"
--Rev. Ed Bacon, author of "8 Habits of Love"; rector, All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California ""Reduced to Joy" invites us to open our hearts and accept the beauty that the world holds. At the same time, Nepo's poems urge us to dive deep into our own experiences, to question, to search for the truths that we must accept and embrace. His poems are full of such tremendous love that you can't help being touched by them."
--Kate Hopper, author of "Ready for Air: A Journey through Premature Motherhood" and "Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers" "Nepo makes simple, often overlooked things in life, meaningful and the meaningful, but sometimes overly complex things, simple. This is a beautiful book of poems to deepen and nurture the soul with love and joy, even for those who have never read a poem in their life."
--Allen Klein, author of "The Art of Living Joyfully" and "Always Look on the Bright Side" ""Reduced to Joy" has many different kinds of poems, all of them clear, wise, beautifully put, spare.The ones I like best have small stories in them, like the one of his father's four uproarious Russian unclesaround a pool table in the 1950s. (Running the Table) Mark Nepo has a great heart. His poems are good company."
-Coleman Barks "The soul is so precious, full of joy and wonder, and the pain that comes from love. These poems touch the soul, reminding each of us what it means to be fully alive, t