Giving A Voice To Sorrow: Personal Responses To Death And Mourning

Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning

From Publishers WeeklyAt the compassionate heart of Giving a Voice to Sorrow: Personal Responses to Death and Mourning is the belief that stories of grief ought to be told and that when they are, and when they are collected into book form, they will offer readers support comparable to group therapy sessions. Authors (and folklorists) Steve Zeitlin and Ilana Harlow "share some of the voices that have saddened and inspired" them in chapters that address matters of storytelling, ritual and ceremony, commemoration, dreams and even signs the dead might leave to comfort the living. In story after story, grief's facets are explored and its sharp edges softened.Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.A compassionate and supportive guide to bereavement takes a close-up look at the creative ways in which individuals and groups confront the grieving process, celebrate the lives and memories of those who have died, and find a balance between remembrance and letting go. Original.About the AuthorSteve Zeitlin is the director and cofounder of City Lore, a cultural center in New York. A popular public speaker, he has served as a commentator on National Public Radio, and is the author of Because God Loves Stories: An Anthology of Jewish Storytelling, and numerous other books on America