The Long Weeping Author|Angela Halgrimson Judy Fiskin

Judy Fiskin

They formed a visual picture from the author's past to the mind's eye

Years ago Ashley realized that she was addicted to sugar and junk food nearly her whole life

Just by reading about them

The Long Weeping Author|Angela Halgrimson Judy FiskinWinner of the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Essays 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