Ravelings : essays on love, loss, and wonder / Lisa Knopp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knopp, Lisa, 1956- author.

Series:

American lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Bereavement.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

ix, 189 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Ravelings explores the deaths or departures of loved ones and the rituals created and enacted to mourn and honor them and to find solace. It also explores the shifts in the author's relationships with her writing, spirituality, sense of home, and bodymind. Despite these losses and changes-or rather because of them-she experiences wonder, joy, connectivity, and wholeness"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb "ravel"-"to entangle"-as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor them, while contemplating her relationships with writing, spirituality, sense of home, aging, desire, and the relationship between body and mind. Entangled in these losses and changes, Knopp experiences wonder, joy, connectivity, and wholeness.In these nimble and companionable essays, Knopp considers hunger and fullness through ethical, disordered, and mindful eating; awakens to common magic through two chance encounters with a magician; and finds humility and empowerment as an unpartnered sixty-year-old woman in a ballroom dance class filled with young couples. Knopp comprehends her experiences with nuance, revealing time and again that the same ravel of text can encompass the blending in a single moment of the exotic and mundane, of fullness and want, of love and abhorrence, of desire and contentment, of freedom and bondage, of severance and connection, and of the creative act as both an evocation and an imposition. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

In the Place of Their Exile

Kaddish

Still Life with Peaches

Living Parables

Daily Bread

Doves for Dinner

The Renoir

Common Magic

After Dover

Leaving the Body

Fleet

Free Samples

Giving Form to Feeling

Name-staker

Broom Dance

Faith, Bone Deep

My Velleity

Acknowledgments .

ISBN:

149624494X

9781496244949

OCLC:

1519448688