The Sorrow Dance
Author: Denise Levertov
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780811200868
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The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers
Author: E. Schieffelin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-01-14
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1403981795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic ethnography, now in its second edition, describes the traditional way of life of the Kaluli, a tropical forest people of Papua New Guinea. The book takes as its focus the nostalgic and violent Gisalo ceremony, one of the most remarkable performances in the anthropological literature. Tracking the major symbolic and emotional themes of the ceremony to their sources in everyday Kaluli life, Schieffelin shows how the central values and passions of Kaluli experience are governed by the basic forms of social reciprocity. However, Gisaro reveals that social reciprocity is not limited to the dynamics of transaction, obligation and alliance. It emerges, rather, as a mode of symbolic action and performative form, embodying a cultural scenario which shapes Kaluli emotional experience and moral sensibility and permeates their understanding of the human condition.
From Sorrow to Dancing
Author: Marcy Kelly
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781604776119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis resource portrays the emotions, thoughts, actions, and experiences of widows as they struggle through the aftermath of losing a spouse. The text addresses key situations where decisions can change lives for the better. (Social Issues)
Mourning and Dancing
Author: Sally Downham Miller
Publisher:
Published: 2023-08-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author's personal story of life and death and grief and the lessons that the survivors learned. This inspiring work chronicles Sally Miller's thirty-year journey of grief and recovery.
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2013-08-27
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 160868282X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I was born to grow, / alongside my garden of plants, / poems / like / this one“ So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality, the power we each share to express our truest, deepest selves. Beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others, she demonstrates that we are stronger than our circumstances. As she confronts personal and collective challenges, her words dance, sing, and heal.
House of Salt and Sorrows
Author: Erin A. Craig
Publisher: Ember
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 198483195X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Get swept away by this “haunting” (Bustle) YA novel about twelve beautiful sisters living on an isolated island estate who begin to mysteriously die one by one. This dark and atmospheric fairy tale inspired story is perfect for fans of Yellowjackets. "Step inside a fairy tale." —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Be careful who you dance with... And don't miss Erin Craig's Small Favors, a mesmerizing and chilling novel about dark wishes and even darker dreams.
Grief Is a Dancer
Author: Alisa Bair
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781947597402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling memoir considers the burning question asked by parents who lose a child: "Will it ever get better?" With her bracing storytelling, Bair shows what it's like for her family to seek equilibrium after their unspeakable loss. She proposes that grief is an intuitive, loving, life-long partner in sorrow, not something to "get over."
Wildwood Dancing
Author: Juliet Marillier
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780330438285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFive sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
Ghost Dance
Author: Carole Maso
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1640092455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Although author Carole Maso follows the contours of fiction, style is everything in Ghost Dance, a strangely lovely and perplexing book . . . she has a fine ear and her literary gift is impressive." —San Francisco Chronicle Originally published in 1986, Ghost Dance is the first in a line of relentlessly experimental and highly esteemed works by Carole Maso. Vanessa Turin's family has been broken up by an event so devastating she cannot bear to face it straight on. Her mother, the brilliant and beautiful poet Christine Wing, seems simply to have disappeared, and her gentle, silent father also vanishes. In Ghost Dance, the reader experiences firsthand the dimensions of Vanessa's longing, the capabilities of her imagination, the persistence of her memory, and the ferocity of her love as she struggles to retrieve her family, to reclaim her country, and to come to terms with overwhelming sorrow.
God in the Dark
Author: Sarah Van Diest
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1631466070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife’s painful trials can bring shame about our inadequate and broken faith. There is relief in hearing the expressions of desperation in the psalmist’s voice. He didn’t experience this life perfected, and we don’t either. But the psalmist was loved. So are we. God was so kind to give us the Psalms. To walk through darkened days is part of the human experience. To walk through them with faith, comfort, strength, joy, and hope is part of the divine experience. Our eyes, though, are often clouded to those blessings by the thing oppressing us. When we remember and recognize our Father’s faithfulness, when we see reality with the eyes of understanding, the darkness ebbs and the light of hope grows. The impossible, unbearable, and unthinkable becomes the hidden passageway to truth, hope, and joy in Christ. These letters were originally written as encouragement to a friend when the darkness began to overtake his path. Each day for 22 days, a letter arrived with one of the eight-verse sections from Psalm 119 along with a small thought to bring light and hope and to be a reminder that we do not fight our battles alone. The letters, along with nine more devotions on the subject of experiencing God in the dark, make up this powerful, honest, hope-filled 31-day devotional.
