Beyond Speaking

Résumé du livre

"Through poetry and essay, this study examines the universal experiences of identity, relationship, religion, and the truths beyond what one may readily see. It is the record of everything that was important to me during a four-year period of time: the beauty of falling in love, the joys and trials of a commitment to one other person, the coming-to-terms with my body, my faith, my temperament and anxieties, memories and perceptions of countless separate moments. It is the recognition of these same experiences throughout the ages, met in poets who wrote fifty years ago, or seven hundred years ago, poets who will write long after I am gone about the same kinds of feelings. It is about the challenge of figuring out just how to say the thing that must be said, whether it is about the smallest kernel of wisdom garnered through attempting to jump-start a car in sub-zero weather or the pain of letting go of a friendship, of a particular faith, of the belief that because I am a woman I must act in certain ways. It is an exploration of the ways words can work together, a celebration of it, and a hope that this is only the beginning of what I am to discover, and attempt to tell"--Abstract.