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In Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb "ravel"—"to entangle"—as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor them, while contemplating her relationships with writing, spirituality, sense of home, aging, desire, and the relationship between body and mind. Entangled in these losses and changes, Knopp experiences wonder, joy, connectivity, and wholeness.
In these nimble and companionable essays, Knopp considers hunger and fullness through ethical, disordered, and mindful eating; awakens to common magic through two chance encounters with a magician; and finds humility and empowerment as an unpartnered sixty-year-old woman in a ballroom dance class filled with young couples. Knopp comprehends her experiences with nuance, revealing time and again that the same ravel of text can encompass the blending in a single moment of the exotic and mundane, of fullness and want, of love and abhorrence, of desire and contentment, of freedom and bondage, of severance and connection, and of the creative act as both an evocation and an imposition.
Contents
Preface
In the Place of Their Exile
Kaddish
Still Life with Peaches
Living Parables
Daily Bread
Doves for Dinner
The Renoir
Common Magic
After Dover
Leaving the Body
Fleet
Free Samples
Giving Form to Feeling
Name-staker
Broom Dance
Faith, Bone Deep
My Velleity
Acknowledgments
