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, November 11, 2014

The Invisible Something


What Invisible Something holds the Sierra Nevada Mountains up? What sustains the giant sequoias as they grow to be 30 feet around, 300 feet tall, and live for 3000 years? What inspires the rivers to dance and sing in the cascades?

In his “Autumn” poem, Rilke says that everything is falling — “the heavy earth is falling away from all the other stars in the loneliness.” I feel this at times, the heaviness, the sorrow, despair, the general listless dragging down toward earth.


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