The Love of Impermanent Things
A Threshold Ecology
by Mary Rose O’Reilley
At midlife, Mary Rose O’Reilley writes, we are called to an “archeology of memory”—turning over a potsherd here, a fragment there—to assemble something whole out of the messiness of experience. We have, she writes, a chance to recover our daring. Nobody is paying attention, anyway. Why not head for the artistic edge and find our true calling?
Author's Bio:Mary Rose O’Reilley has taught English at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, from 1978 until 2006. She is the author of Barn at the End of the World (2000), and Half Wild, winner of the Walt Whitman Award for Poetry. Her recent awards include a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant and a Bush Artist’s Fellowship. O’Reilley lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Quotes: “O’Reilley brings grace and a certain stringency to her every interaction with the world, and then delivers these small, sobering miracles onto the page with evocative prose. Profound and poetic enough to get you nodding your head and whispering ‘amen.’” Body + Soul
“Read this book and you will see shards of your own life come into focus through O’Reilley’s observations and confessions. She will help you see your own spirituality as a creative force that melds contemplation, action, prophetic outrage, and intuitive energy.” Spirituality & Practice
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Price:
$ 16.00
Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 180
Available Immediately
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Genre: Nonfiction
Pages: 336pp
ISBN: 9781571313126
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