In The Slender Margin

Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 162872627X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Slender Margin written by Eve Joseph and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, an extraordinarily moving and engaging look at loss and death. Eve Joseph is an award-winning poet who worked for twenty years as a palliative care counselor in a hospice. When she was a young girl, she lost a much older brother, and her experience as a grown woman helping others face death, dying, and grief opens the path for her to recollect and understand his loss in a way she could not as a child. In the Slender Margin is an insider's look at an experience that awaits us all, and that is at once deeply fascinating, frightening, and in modern society shunned. The book is an intimate invitation to consider death and our response to it without fear or morbidity, but rather with wonder and a curious mind. Writing with a poet's precise language and in short meditative chapters leavened with insight, warmth, and occasional humor, Joseph cites her hospice experience as well as the writings of others across generations—from the realms of mythology, psychology, science, religion, history, and literature—to illuminate the many facets of dying and death. Offering examples from cultural traditions, practices, and beliefs from around the world, her book is at once an exploration of the unknowable and a very humane journey through the land of grief.

Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher : Patrick Crean Books
ISBN 13 : 9781443426718
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Slender Margin written by Eve Joseph and published by Patrick Crean Books. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey into the land of death and dying seen through the lens of art and the imagination Part memoir, part meditation on death itself, In the Slender Margin is an exploration of death from an "insider's" point of view. Using the threads of her brother's early death and her twenty years of work at a hospice, Joseph utilizes history, religion, philosophy, literature, personal anecdote, mythology, poetry and pop culture to discern the unknowable and to illuminate her travels through the land of the dying. The book is neither an academic text nor a self-help manual; rather, it is a rumination on death, dying and the mystery that awaits us all. Rather than relying solely on narrative, In the Slender Margin gains momentum from a buildup of thematic resonances. In the process of thinking deeply about death, Joseph finds the brother she lost as a young girl. She wrote this book as a way to understand what she had seen: the mysterious and the horrendous. Replete with literary allusions and references ranging from Joan Didion and Susan Sontag to D.H. Lawrence and Voltaire, among many other literary voices, the result is an absorbing and inspired consideration of how we die and how we deal with death.

Author : Andrew Sneddon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906441012
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slender Margin Between the Real and the Unreal written by Andrew Sneddon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Royal Society of Tasmania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania written by Royal Society of Tasmania and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Quinn
Publisher : Steerforth
ISBN 13 : 1586421921
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways written by Daniel Quinn and published by Steerforth. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of Ishmael shares his advice on how to challenge your own thought processes so you can see the world in new, creative, revolutionary ways In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn offered new ways of seeing and understanding human history, and our collective future. His message was transformative for millions of people, and Ishmael continues to attract tens of thousands of new readers each year. Subsequent works, such as The Story of B and My Ishmael, expanded upon his insights and teachings, but only now does he finally tackle the one question he has been asked hundreds of times but has never taken on: “How do you do what you do?” In If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways Quinn elucidates for readers the methods behind his own thought processes, challenging and ultimately empowering them to view the world for themselves in creative, perhaps even revolutionary ways. If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways also includes Quinn's never-before-published essays “The New Renaissance” and “Our Religions.” There is a scientific consensus that global warming is approaching a tipping point beyond no return faster than had previously been predicted. Quinn has long portrayed humans as “a species of beings, which, while supposedly rational, are destroying the very planet they live on.” So what are we to do? There has never been a plan for the future—and there never will be. But something extraordinary will happen in the next two or three decades; the people of our culture will learn to live sustainably—or not. Either way, it will be extraordinary. The sooner we understand this reality, the greater the chances that human society will transform itself so that the human race might have a future.

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eve Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772141191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarrels written by Eve Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These short, condensed prose poems demonstrate that the illogical has a logic of its own, and that the "real is underpinned by the surreal, rather than the other way around.""--

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ohio Biological Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey written by Ohio Biological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232500
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Image on the Edge written by Michael Camille and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.