Product Description: Poetry arises from the search for sacred language that describes the awe and mystery of the real world.  Deena Metzger is a contemporary poet who has aligned herself with this ancient tradition. This collection, that includes selections from her earlier books of poetry – Dark Milk, The Axis Mundi Poems, Looking For the Faces of God , A Sabbath Among the Ruins and Skin:Shadows/Silence draws on her life’s work, more than forty years of devotion to the word, and aligns itself with such a quest for meaning that has increasing urgency because of the spiritual and political ruins of our time...read more

Product Description: Barbara Myerhoff's groundbreaking work in reflexivity and narrative ethnography broke with tradition by focusing not on the raw ethnographic data, but on her interaction with those she studied. Myerhoff's unfinished projects, including her final talks on storytelling, ritual, and the "culture of aging and Yiddishkeit," offer a magisterial summary of her life's work...read more

Product Description: What does it mean to meet the spirit in our mundane world? How do we communicate with the other side? Can we really forge a proof that the dead live on among us? A young American writer, having long admired the work of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, travels to France in 1974 to meet him, hoping to commune with a literary soul mate and to create a political alliance in the face of the brutal coup that has overtaken Chile...read more

A unique collection of essays, stories, meditations, and poems celebrates the sympathy between women and animals in the words of female biologists, naturalists, and writers, from Ursula K. Le Guin to Marge Piercy to Terry Tempest Williams. Reprint. K. PW.

A thoroughly researched, inspirational guide provides insight into the unique relationship that exists between women and animals and includes contributions from Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Jane Goodall, Temple Grandin, Barbara Kingsolver, and others.

Researchers, teachers, and authors discuss the nature of creativity and the creative process with New Dimensions Radio host Michael Toms

Product Description: Poet, playwright, novelist and essayist Deena Metzger has been an inspiration to thousands of women from the first publication of Tree, the 1978 journal in which she recorded her struggle with breast cancer. In this new volume, Tree is placed in the context of Metzger's major statements on healing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the tradition of Annie Dillard and Natalie Goldberg, this resource for writers and non-writers alike shows the act of writing to be a dynamic means of knowing, healing, and creating the body, mind, and spirit.

Product Description: What it's like to grow older in America, as revealed by an anthropologist who listened to the stories of the elderly.

A Jewish-American filmmaker, Dina Z., courts danger in Israel when she falls for a Palestinian activist and reawakens Dinah, her biblical ancestress, who suffered a tragic fate for the crime of loving the wrong man