On display, October 2023 in Rose Library. Selected by participants of the Be)Holding Love & Loss Series.
Organized by Michael Trocchia & Bethany Nowviskie.
What is it to love another, in this life and beyond? When we lose the people we love, can that love somehow keep them alive? Might those we grieve be nearer than we think, just—as it were—on the other side of life? Or perhaps nothing can be held forever, not in memory nor in our hearts. Through a combination of talks and art events, this series will explore these questions through continuous conversations and considerations on the nature of grief—how we understand our grief, what we grieve, and the ways in which grief figures into our lives.
Print Books
eBooks
Music
The Automatic Sweethearts on Spotify
"Firelight" and "Me and My Monster" from the album And The Sky Fell Down
Be)Holding playlist on Spotify
Songs featured during series events
"Believe For It"
by CeCe Winans
"Gracefully Broken"
by Tasha Cobbs Leonard
"Testimony"
by Marvin Sapp
"Thank You For It All"
by Marvin Sapp
Online Books, Poetry, and Stories Available to JMU Community
American Imago, Vol. 77, Number 1, Spring 2020
Special Edition on "Ecological Grief"
"Anderson Cooper is Still Learning to Live with Loss," The New York Times
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and The Body in Nineteenth-Century America
by Dana Luciano
Eurydice to Orpheus
by Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Nina Kossman
"Grieving"
from Loneliness as A Way of Life by Thomas Dumm
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes
by Robert Lowell, adapted from Rilke
Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Manual for Clergy, Counsellors and Speakers
by William Smith
Online Books, Poetry, and Stories Available to Anyone
"I Carried My Father Across the Sea"
by Gbenga Adesina
"The Myth," Eurydice Harrisonburg
a collection of poems on the Orpheus myth
"The Peace of Wild Things"
by Wendell Berry
"Shaping Grief with Language"
told by Gregory Orr, on the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett
"The Song of Napalm"
by Bruce Weigl
"Surrender"
by Gbenga Adesina