The Crying Book Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Original Title:	The Crying Book ISBN13 9781948226448
Edition Language:	English

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Award-winning poet Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and must reckon with her own struggles with depression and the birth of her first child. How she faces her joy, grief, anxiety, impending motherhood, and conflicted truce with the world results in a moving meditation on the nature, rapture, and perils of crying―from the history of tear-catching gadgets (including the woman who designed a gun that shoots tears) to the science behind animal tears (including moths who drink them) to the fraught role of white women's tears in racist violence.

Told in short, poetic snippets, The Crying Book delights and surprises, as well as rigorously examines how mental illness can affect a family across generations and how crying can express women’s agency―or lack of agency―in everyday life. Christle’s gift is the freshness of her voice and honesty of her approach, both of which create an intimacy with readers as she explores a human behavior broadly experienced but rarely questioned. A beautiful tribute to the power of crying, and to working through despair to tears of joy.

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Title	:	The Crying Book
Author	:	Heather Christle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	November 5th 2019 by Catapult
Categories	:	Poetry. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Health. Mental Health. Writing. Essays

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"I say book. I mean poem. I mean the way the landscape suddenly reveals itself in layers, a vertical light shining its connective beam from one moment to the next. An entry into an awareness of a dimension always present. Not always seen. I think if I can keep myself alive to it, it will keep me from going under."Nothing less than a book which recreates the terms by which one might, somehow, live.

When, where, why do we cry? How is it that some are predisposed to cry little and others to weep endlessly? Why does it so often feel shameful? When does it relieve us, does it trap us in depression? Peaceful and powerful, The Crying Book is a poetic examination of the art of weeping. Poet Heather Christle meditates on tears, grief, in a graceful mourning song held together by personal experiences, scientific insight, and her most belovedpoetry. In the face of great loss, Christles account is

The Crying Book is intensely meta and layered in every direction. I love nothing more than the melding of the scientific and the literary, and with this exploration of tears, Heather Christle creates just that. In short bursts that are compulsively readable, she breaks down the endlessly frustrating and artificial wall between "the academic" and "the feminine," encouraging a discomfort with her emotionality (and then encouraging a critique of that discomfort). A new go-to recommendation for

When was the last time that you really cried, and what was the reason? Be vulnerable and transparent here with me, just like the actual act of crying. When were you so overcome with grief and moved so deeply, drowned in the oceanic water that stains our cheeks with agony, elation, or somber streaks that are proof of our tangibility. Like an old brick well russet and tanned from years in the sun suddenly overflowed and pooling from deep within our physical embodiment. When was the last time you

Astounding, thought provoking, unlike anything Ive ever read. This common human activity felt so alien and strange and not fully understood in this book. And it was absolutely gorgeous.

4.5 This really resonated with me. Perhaps because Im a crier.

This book was so many things at once. Eerie in a way, with such arresting language. There were times I had to put it down and take a breath between sections. It felt like such poetry to me, but also wove this heart stopping memoir throughout. I loved this book.