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I Would Die If I Were You: Notes On Art And TruthTelling
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Drawing Upon Her Previous Work And Over Two Decades Of Teaching, New York Times Bestselling Memoirist Emily Rapp Black Explores How Art Can Move Us Through Moments Of Grief And Loss While Celebrating The SpiritLifting Potential Of All Creative Actsto Be Disabled Is To Be Exiled; To Have A Terminal Illness Is To Be Isolated In OneS TimeLimitedness; To Grieve Is To Be Annihilated; And To Live Is Inevitable: All Of These, Together And At Once, Form The Core Of The Truth Of Being Human.As Most Artists Know, Approaching Their Hard Stories In A Way That Feels Joyful, Redemptive, And Meaningful Can Be Difficult To Near Impossible. With I Would Die If I Were You, Celebrated Author Emily Rapp Black Has Designed A Guide That Will Help Creative People Working In Any Medium Make Meaning Out Of Loss.For Her Entire Life, She Has Been Answering Awkward Questions In Elevators: WhatS Wrong With You? What Happened To Your Body? And, In The Case Of Her SonS Terminal Illness And Death, SheS Been Told More Times Than She Can Count: I Would Die If I Were You. Rejecting Such Cruel And Casual Conclusions, Rapp Black Posits That Part Of The Human Project Is To Experience Grief And Loss, And Nobody Gets Out Alive, And No WriterOr PersonSurvives Anything Alone. We Need Empathy, And For That We Need Community, And We Need All The Stories Told Within Them To Reach Our Fullest Potential. I Would Die If I Were You Is A Bold And Bracing BlueprintPart Memoir, Part Craft BookFor How Art Making Can Lead Us To Our Fullest Truths.
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