Joan Logghe

Broschiertes Buch

Jade Bird

Singing Grief

Beschreibung

"Such powerful medicine-the courage and love in this book. An astonishing gift to the broken world." ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and All the Honey. Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012, explores the mysterious confluence of grief and beauty in her latest work, a memoir of her family's extraordinary discovery of resilience and meaning amidst profound sorrow. A family loses a child at birth. With guidance from dreams and support from their community, they weave together rituals and ceremonies that bring deep spiritual meaning into an impossibly painful time. The baby's grandmother, Joan, wrote poems and painted in bright watercolor as she worked through her own grief process. Those poems and images became the backbone of this book, which chronicles her family's navigation through the valley of death. "In this luminous collection by master poet and storyteller Joan Logghe, shot through with lyrical reflections by her family and illuminated with the author's watercolor musings, we are granted access to the sacred realm of profound loss, which cannot help but transform us." ~ Mirabai Starr, author of Caravan of No Despair and Wild Mercy.

Autor

Joan Logghe has lived a life of poetry in La Puebla, New Mexico, where she and her husband, Michael, built their solar houses, raised three children, have five grandkids, and one great grandson. She has taught extensively all ages, from UNM-Los Alamos to children in central Europe. She has led a yearly workshop at Ghost Ranch since 1990, taught at Santa Clara Pueblo day school, and, for 21 years, at the Santa Fe Girls' School. Over and over, she has experienced the salutary power of poetry. She has run art and writing workshops, AIDS writing circles, and workshops for crisis, illness, and loss. Joan was Santa Fe's Poet Laureate from 2010-2012. She has inspired and edited countless books by children and adults and served as Poetry Editor for Peggy O'Mara's Mothering Magazine for many years. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Grants, a Mabel Dodge Luhan Internship, and a Barbara Deming/Money for Women grant.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wild Rising Press
• Seitenzahl: 118
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 216mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9781957468358
• ISBN-10: 1957468351
• Artikelnr.: 71936810