The Power of the Pause: The Wonder of Our Here & Now - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1737694042 ISBN 13 : 9781737694045

Editeur : Wising Up Press, 2022

Synopsis

The fifty-two talented writers in this anthology help us explore, through poetry, fiction, and essay, the hidden gifts of pause, voluntary and involuntary, how it may help us recalibrate, restore, find new and richer ways of being with ourselves and others. Sometimes it is better not to over-ride, overcome, forge on. This is a radical suggestion in a world that keeps going faster and faster, that measures value by the passing likes of others rather than that still inner voice. Sometimes pause is not a choice. It's forced upon us, whether we are ready or not. With the pandemic, all our lives slammed to a stop and were redirected in ways that were unexpected, often unwanted. Even so, sometimes the best step is just to listen in, not just to doubts but perhaps to something more resilient, constructive, slower, but stronger. Wiser. Something we may not have thought of-or experienced-yet.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Heather Tosteson is the author of seven books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, most recently the novel The Philosophical Transactions of Maria van Leeuwenhoek, Antoni's Dochter (1668-1696) and a poetry collection Source Notes: Seventh Decade. She has an MFA (UNC-Greensboro) and PhD in English and Creative Writing (Ohio University). Her work in health communications focused on cross-disciplinary communication, racism, social trust, and how belief systems develop and change. Most recently, she and Charles Brockett co-authored Sharing the Burden of Repair: Reentry After Mass Incarceration, an extensive six-year Wising Up Listening Project. She has co-edited all eighteen Wising Up Anthologies.

Charles Brockett has a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a recipient of several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. A retired political science professor, he has written two well-received books on Central America, Political Movements and Violence in Central America and Land, Power, and Poverty: Agrarian Transformation and Political Conflict in Central America, numerous social science journal articles and book chapters, most recently of the ebook President Biden and the Prospects of Immigration Reform, A Wising Up Citizen Scholar Report. With Heather Tosteson, he is co-founder of Universal Table and Wising Up Press and co-editor of the Wising Up Anthologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wising Up Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1737694042
• ISBN 13: 9781737694045
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Éditeur: Tosteson Heather, Brockett Charles D
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne