Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Cantus: the Silence of Grief


In Arvo Part’s Cantus, a piece for orchestra and Russian Orthodox bells, silence is written into the composition. There are periods when no musicians are playing, yet we hear the reverberations of the notes recently played. We hear them even though no one is playing them.


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