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, February 17, 2011

When Friends Visit





Talking about grief with friends who haven’t lost someone close is a grab bag experience; you don’t know what reaction you’ll get. The reactions can range from sympathy to empathy to compassion on the positive side, and from indifference to anger to fear on the negative, as if your closeness with death will rub off on them.

You want the people with compassion.
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