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The Resource In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying, Eve Joseph

In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying, Eve Joseph

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"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. "--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First US edition.
Extent
211 pages
Contents
  • The Basement
  • Through the Land of the Dying
  • The Dynamic Corpse
  • Death's Confidante
  • Afterword
Isbn
9781628725834
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In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying
Title
In the slender margin
Title remainder
the intimate strangeness of death and dying
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Eve Joseph
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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. "--
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contains biographical information
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http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1953-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Joseph, Eve
Dewey number
155.9/37092
Index
no index present
LC call number
BD444
LC item number
.J58 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Death
  • Loss (Psychology)
  • Joseph, Eve
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In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying, Eve Joseph
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-211)
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volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The Basement -- Through the Land of the Dying -- The Dynamic Corpse -- Death's Confidante -- Afterword
Control code
ocn907190433
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First US edition.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9781628725834
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2015027969
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
In the slender margin : the intimate strangeness of death and dying, Eve Joseph
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-211)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The Basement -- Through the Land of the Dying -- The Dynamic Corpse -- Death's Confidante -- Afterword
Control code
ocn907190433
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First US edition.
Extent
211 pages
Isbn
9781628725834
Isbn Type
(hardback)
Lccn
2015027969
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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