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, July 30, 2015

When the Spirit Opens




(from the Archives)

“I don’t know when the spirit opens itself to the river.” Kathleen Dean Moore

Moore was writing about someone drowning. I wondered about this movement of the spirit, too, when I sat by Evelyn’s bed in the ICU. Was she still present, or had she drifted off and now existed somewhere else?


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