Title:
Earth grief : the journey into and through ecological loss
Author:
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Boulder, CO : Raven Press, [2022]
Physical Description:
289 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780970869678
Abstract:
"Stephen Harrod Buhner takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others have found. It’s where one becomes an engaged witness, alive to the losses that are occurring and the grief that is felt but is not overcome by them. Then he travels into and through the common feelings of guilt and shame (feelings that are put on so many but in actuality belong to very few) that come from ecological devastation. From there Stephen moves deep into what occurs when those we love die, when the planetary landscapes, forests, fields and rivers that are engraved into our deepest selves are lost, when we are forced to travel into the territory of death and loss and deep grief ourselves." --Bookmanager.
Contents:
The journey before us -- The teaching of barns and birds -- Earth grief -- Once you are real you can't become unreal again -- Shame and guilt -- People possess four things that are no good at sea -- Inevitability and descent, the first part -- The diagnosis -- Inevitability and descent, the second part -- Fragments from a stained glass window -- The journey through grief and loss -- It's hard to live without love, you know -- The life we live with afterward -- It's hollow inside, isn't it, just like me?
Language:
English
