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Author : Susan Ioannou
Release : 2017
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Book Rating : 487/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Familiar Faces by : Susan Ioannou
Download or read book Familiar Faces written by Susan Ioannou. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Ioannou
Release : 2011-07-22
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 384/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Familiar Faces / Private Grief by : Susan Ioannou
Download or read book Familiar Faces / Private Grief written by Susan Ioannou. This book was released on 2011-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised and expanded edition, the first half of the book, Familiar Faces, presents a variety of individuals: from an elegant single woman and a middle-aged school teacher, through students, writers, a convalescent, unhappy insurance adjuster, artistic duo, desperate gardener, and grandmothers, to old Greek men sharing coffee in the mall. These are the faces we encounter in everyday life, seen through the fresh eye of a poet. The second half of the book, Private Grief, has a more sombre tone, looking toward, then mourning, the demise of loved ones, and in the process coming to terms with and acknowledging the cycle of life.
Author : Francis Weller
Release : 2015-09-15
Genre : Self-Help
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Book Rating : 763/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Wild Edge of Sorrow by : Francis Weller
Download or read book The Wild Edge of Sorrow written by Francis Weller. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.
Author : Susan Ioannou
Release : 1986-01-01
Genre : Canadian poetry
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Book Rating : 012/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Familiar Faces, Private Griefs by : Susan Ioannou
Download or read book Familiar Faces, Private Griefs written by Susan Ioannou. This book was released on 1986-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Release : 2021-05-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Notes on Grief by : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Download or read book Notes on Grief written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father: “With raw eloquence, Notes on Grief … captures the bewildering messiness of loss in a society that requires serenity, when you’d rather just scream. Grief is impolite ... Adichie’s words put welcome, authentic voice to this most universal of emotions, which is also one of the most universally avoided” (The Washington Post). Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's beloved father’s death in the summer of 2020. As the COVID-19 pandemic raged around the world, and kept Adichie and her family members separated from one another, her father succumbed unexpectedly to complications of kidney failure. Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page—and never without touches of rich, honest humor—Adichie weaves together her own experience of her father’s death with threads of his life story, from his remarkable survival during the Biafran war, through a long career as a statistics professor, into the days of the pandemic in which he’d stay connected with his children and grandchildren over video chat from the family home in Abba, Nigeria. In the compact format of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, Adichie delivers a gem of a book—a book that fundamentally connects us to one another as it probes one of the most universal human experiences. Notes on Grief is a book for this moment—a work readers will treasure and share now more than ever—and yet will prove durable and timeless, an indispensable addition to Adichie's canon.
