Reduced to Joy is a book of 73 poems, retrieved and shaped over the last thirteen years, about the nature of working with what we're given till it wears us through to joy.

About joy, Nepo says, "Often, what keeps us from joy is the menacing assumption that life is happening other than where we are." Of the book, he says, "Poetry is the well from which all my books rise. It's where I always go to listen, always stunned by what arrives. It's how I know the inner world. I bring these poems back from the deep like shells from the sea that we can look at together."

Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty years. A cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.

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