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.

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Grief and the Body

from the Archives

The Physicality of Grief

I hadn’t connected grief with sex, but Louise Gluck does in a poem where she compares the physical impact of losing someone close to her first sexual experience with a lover.

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I will write about widowers and sexuality later. Sienna Jae Fein included some of my thoughts on this in her essay published by the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sienna-jae-fein/sex-and-the-grieving-widower_b_7409220.html)


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