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, August 19, 2014

Never Goes Away (What Grief Brings)


We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.  Proust

Our spouses vowed they would never go away. Then they died and disappeared. They did not intend to go, and we did not want them to leave, but they did, and here we are.

In my early days of grief, as I searched through books looking for answers into what had taken my life apart, I noticed that Rainer Maria Rilke and Washington Irving had different opinions about grief, and jotted down their thoughts:

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