The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

ISBN 10: 1888160438 / ISBN 13: 9781888160437

Published by Ice Cube Books (edition First Edition), 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body
• Publisher: Ice Cube Books (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888160438
• ISBN 13: 9781888160437
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days, writes Caryn Mirriam- Goldberg in this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer. Mirriam- Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community, the land and sky, and a body undergoing vast renovation. Along the way, she swims with stingrays in the Gulf of Mexico, searches for cream puff s for a Pennsylvania funeral, leads a group fi ghting to protect ecologically-essential land in Kansas, and helps students fi nd their own voice in Vermont. In searching for a new definition of the erotic through our awareness of nature, this memoir illuminates how our bodies are our most local address on the earth.

About the Author

CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG is the Poet Laureate of Kansas and a long-time bioregionalist, poet, and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Animals in the House, Lot s Wife, and Reading the Body; an award-winning writing book, Write Where You Are; and the editor of e Power of Words: A Transformative Language Arts Reader. She founded and coordinates Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College, where she teaches, and she facilitates writing workshops, particularly for people living with serious illness. With rhythm and blues singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt, she also performs and leads Brave Voice writing and singing workshops and retreats. Caryn helped found the Kansas Area Watershed Council, the Continental Bioregional Congress, and the Transformative Language Arts Network. She makes her home with her family just south of Lawrence, Kansas, in the Wakarusa River valley.