One Silken Thread: Poetry's Presence in Grief

"This book is very brave and very well done." • "...this book is lyrical in itself" • "...both personal and universal" • "Best read with the heart."

Lee Scheingold's rich, painful personal journey—following the death of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold—is described from the points of view which have informed her life: psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with the Russian poems sh…