The Long Weeping: Portrait Essays

by Jessie van Eerden

Book Overview

In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital "lamp of the body," a spiritual organ van Eerden uses to craft essays that are as much encounters as they are likenesses, as much being seen as seeing. Historical subjects like Simone Weil and the Beguines confront the author's imaginative and intellectual being, while the viscerally close foci of family and a lost marriage must also be reckoned with. The author's religious tradition and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0996439757
• ISBN13: 9780996439756
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Orison Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"