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Announcing a brilliant new collection of the world's great poets:
Leading From Within:
Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead
What do Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry and Nashville poet Nevin Compton Trammell have in common? All of these well-loved poets (and more) are featured in a new international anthology called Leading from Within: Poetry that Sustains the Courage to Lead. Each of the ninety-three poems in this unique and timely collection is accompanied by a brief personal commentary by a leader explaining the significance and meaning of the poem in his or her life and work.
Published by Jossey-Bass, the brilliant editing team of Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner gathered the best: a forward written by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright; an introduction by educator and activist Parker J. Palmer; an opening commentary by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and a host of poets and leaders from all walks. This book is being described as perhaps the most soulful treatment of leadership ever composed.
The contributors who reflect on each poem represent a wide range of professions including Vanguard Group founder John Bogle, MoveOn.org cofounder Joan Blades, several members of Congress, business guru Peter Senge, leaders from business, medicine, education, nonprofits, law, politics, and religion–including Dr. Karen Lee Turner, a Nashville-based leader in spirituality and education, who reflects on Trammell’s poem entitled, “I’m Tired, I’m Whipped.”
Trammell, whose work has been compared to the likes of Shel Silverstein, Langston Hughes, and e.e. cummings, writes poetry that is uniquely accessible to readers from ages 5 to 90. As critic Holly Gleason noted, Trammell’s bluesy, confessional poetry is “refreshing in its directness, comforting in its clarity and evocation, healing in the mirror it holds up to our souls.”
If you want to be a more effective, courageous leader in life and work get the powerful little masterpiece, Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead. All royalties from the book go to support leadership programs at the Center for Courage and Renewal. If you, like many others including John Seigenthaler, find yourself hooked on Nevin Compton Trammell’s poems and want to continuously sip something spicy yet soothing for your soul, savor his collection, Cream Soda Blues: Poems for Adult Children of Life.
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