Field Notes From Grief: The First Year - Softcover

Stitzel, Judith

 
9781595717535: Field Notes From Grief: The First Year
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1595717536 ISBN 13: 9781595717535
Verlag: Word Association Publishers, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

A story of love is encapsulated like a seed in a story of loss and then blooms on Judith Stitzel s pages, accompanied by Claudia Giannini s gorgeous images. Grief requires its own syntax and vocabulary, Judith tells us in this chronicle of the first year after her husband s death, and then proceeds to learn the language like a native. She rejects the clichés customarily offered to and by the bereaved, instead gleaning her own complicated, honest, and resilient art.

- Natasha Sajé, author of Bend

Without being overly (and therefore unbelievably) encouraging, Field Notes from Grief affirms the reader through humor, honesty and attention to the emotional contradictions of loss. Different people need different things when they are grieving. But, as much as anything else, they need evidence that they will once again want to go on.

- Stephanie Savitch, MS, LPC

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Judith Gold Stitzel is a retired professor of English and women’s studies at West Virginia University, where she was the founding director of the Center for Women’s Studies. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism in Colorado Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, College English, Green Mountain Review, and others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College and has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 
 


Judith Gold Stitzel is a retired professor of English and women’s studies at West Virginia University, where she was the founding director of the Center for Women’s Studies. She has published fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism in Colorado Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, College English, Green Mountain Review, and others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College and has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 
 

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Field Notes From Grief: The First Year is drawn from the pages of the journal that Judith Gold Stitzel kept the year following the death of her husband Bob after forty-six years of their shared life.The entries begin a few days before Stitzel’s husband died and are accompanied by collages by artist Claudia Giannini. Like the entries of different lengths, the collages—one for each month of the year—allow readers frequent pauses to reflect on their own lives and losses. 
What differentiates this book from self-help books and from other accounts of survival and recovery are the immediacy and self-revelation the journal format allows, the frequent humor in Stitzel’s exploration of the incongruities and rhythms of grief, and her exploration of “the couple”—that remarkable entity—and how it does and does not continue after death. 
Field Notes from Grief: The First Year does not attempt to explain or educate but to share the rawness of experience while providing evidence to all who grieve, or fear grief, that they will once again want to go on.  
 

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Verlag
Word Association Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595717536
ISBN 13 
9781595717535
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
149
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