This music wraps all of our emotions -- whether it's loveand loss, joy andsorrow, heartbreak and celebration -- it wraps it all into an art form that stirs our souls and it helps us rise above all our struggles.
Poetry: "Stag's Leap, " by Sharon Olds (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrowand the limits of self-knowledge.