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, November 21, 2013

The Power of Music



Even twelve years after Evelyn died, certain music has the power to take me right back to those early days of grief, as if time has not passed at all. One song takes me into the shock and dislocation of death, while other songs drag me back into the loneliness and despair that didn’t seem to have an end. 


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