The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

The call for increased creativity in the workplace brings with it a concomitant challenge: how will the world of cool professionalism stand up to the inevitable heat and volatility that accompanies people's emotional and spiritual lives? It is problematic to assume, poet David Whyte explains, that you can ask people to create and also to behave. The Heart Aroused explores these and related issues in an inspiring, grounded, thought-provoking way, and is the best nonverse book by a poet since Robert Bly's Iron John. Interwoven with carefully selected poems to illustrate Whyte's points, The Heart Aroused is necessary reading for any professional who secretly harbors a poet's soul.

• David Whyte: Essentials
• The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
• Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
• Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity
• The House of Belonging
• Everything Is Waiting for You
• The Bell and the Blackbird
• River Flow: New & Selected Poems
• The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love
• Pilgrim