02291cam a2200337 i 4500 1586487827 TxAuBib 20240911120000.0 240517s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324091639 hardcover $23.99 1324091630 hardcover $23.99 (OCoLC)1434100046 TxAuBib rda Parker, James, 1968-, author. Get me through the next five minutes : odes to being alive / James Parker. Get me through the next 5 minutes. Odes to being alive. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] ©2024. xiii, 216 pages ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Our politics are broken; our world is melting; the next catastrophe looms. Enter James Parker, who for years now has been writing odes of appreciation on subjects from the seemingly minor ("Ode to Naps") to the unexpected ("Ode to Giving People Money") to the seemingly minor, unexpected, and hyperspecific ("Ode to Running in Movies"). Finally collecting Parker's beloved and much-lauded odes in one place, this volume demonstrates the profound power of the form. Each ode is an exercise in gratitude. Each celebrates the permanent susceptibility of everyday humdrum life to dazzling saturations of divine light: the squirrel in the street, the crying baby, the misplaced cup of tea. Parker's odes are songs of praise, but with a decent amount of complaining in there, too: a human ratio of moans. Varied in length but unified in tone, mostly in prose, sometimes toppling into verse, the odes range across music, movies, literature, psychology, and beyond, all through the lens of Parker's personal history. Gathered together, they form an accidental how-to guide to honoring your own experience-and to finding your own odes."-- Provided by publisher. 20241003. Self-actualization (Psychology.) Gratitude. Self-help publications. Lyric poetry.