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A New Theology
Poet and essayist Sheila Bender tells the story of her family and the family of her son's fiancee coming together, understanding that 25-year-old Seth Bender would be taken off life support. She writes about the months they faced together before the upcoming day that would have been his wedding day, and she tells the story of using poetry to write her way out of grief and find a way of carrying her son's life in her own, a way of understanding mortality and immortality. A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief is accessible, absorbing, and a bringer of peace to those who mourn."
Writing and Publishing Personal Essays
In this new edition of Writing and Publishing Personal Essays," Sheila Bender has taken a classic and made it even better. She continues to share the tips and secrets that have given so many of her students the skills to become confident writers. At the same time, she has brought the original up to date with new content and extensively revised resources. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays provides powerful encouragement to write...instructions for writing eight different kinds of personal essays special techniques for giving, receiving, and using critical feedback...proven tips for getting your writing published. Writing and Publishing Personal Essays shows why Sheila Bender is one of the most successful and sought-after writing teachers today.
Writing Personal Essays
Shows writers how to turn memories into works that will interest and captivate readers.
Behind Us the Way Grows Wider
Sheila Bender's 2013 collection of poems features work spanning over 30 years. Poets and writers have called her work generous, windows of light, precise, clear and unpretentious. In 2002, she co-founded WritingItReal.com to facilitate those who write from personal experience. She is also the author of the prose memoir, A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief and many books on writing, including Creative Writing DeMystified, Writing and Publishing Personal Essays. Titles available electronically include Sorrow's Words: Writing Exercises to Heal Grief.
Since Then
Sheila Bender's new volume Since Then is a remarkable poetic account of the way a human being can transform mortal heartbreak into a sustaining love of the world. Sonically lush, elegantly imaginative, and formally diverse, the poems act as direct and indirect milestones in the life of a mother looking back on the life of a son who died decades ago. Pushing courageously beyond the keening of maternal pain, they depict her path forward into a radical appreciation of the present moment. Guided by four epistolary prose poems addressed to her son, the book is alive with both her striking self-examining lyrics about him as well as more outward-looking poems about the grace of our natural environment and the enhancing particularity of things.
Sorrow's Words
In this writing workbook, Sheila Bender offers help and inspiration for those who mourn. Having lost her son in a snowboarding accident in 2000, she leads readers in using the craft of writing to articulate not only the pain and sadness of loss, but also to find a route into reclaiming joyful memories as well as gratitude for having known the deceased. The narrative from the author's journey, the examples from her writing and the writing of others, as well as 16 assessable writing prompts, make Sorrow's Words: Writing Exercises to Heal Grief a treasure for those who need to learn the power of memories and a new way to appreciate beauty in the bittersweet nature of human experience.
Keeping a Journal You Love
Featuring practical instruction from Bender and sample journal entries--from respected writers such as Ron Carlson, Patricia Hampl, Jim Harrison, Robin Hemley, and Philip Lopate--this volume shows how to write about travel, hobbies, personal thoughts, insights, emotions, and theories.
Writing Personal Essays
Shelia Bender shows readers how to find the common threads in their lives, the threads that tie the episodes of their lives to the larger web of human emotion and existence. No topic is dull or taboo. Personal stories are important, and Bender shows how to tell them in the reader's own voice. Also includes a chapter on publishing, how to find the right place to send essays, and how to present work to editors.
The Energy of Belief
Sise and Bender lay out a series of simple exercises that allow people in distress to quickly feel major physical and psychological shifts by holding their bodies in certain ways while taking deep breaths. Their book is packed with real-life case histories of clients who were not helped by the forms of therapy, but for whom the authors' technique, energy-TAB, produced miraculous results.
Creative Writing DeMYSTiFied
Whether for high school, college or pleasure creative writing, you need to know the basic elements of the craft. Creative Writing DeMYSTiFieD gives you helpful suggestions for evaluating your work for freshness and originality and offers scores of exercises, techniques, samples and websites to access more. The book introduces you to general creative writing terms and craft as well as genre specific terms and craft elements. Creative Writing DeMYSTiFieD lets you work at your own pace and provides: -An overview of the creative writing field today and its history -Insights from top writers in the creative writing subgenres -Exercises by professionals in all the subgenres -Answers to questions creative writers have -Resources for revising and finishing your work
