Foreword - Thomas Moore. Part 1 - A journey without maps. 1 Songs of a gypsy. Part 2 - Grief, mourning and melancholy. 2 Dust and dreams: reveries at the heart of grief. 3 Grief and mourning: the greening of the soul. 4 Mourning and melancholy : the orphan and the angel. Part 3 - Lyrical improvisations in celebration of the world. 5 The spider's web, the bird's song, and the ballet of the whale. 6 In the early morning of the world. 7 Under the starry night sky

'...introducing us to a new way of imagination that has direct relevance to our everyday situation, especially to its strong emotions and scarcity of meaning....It is a form of education of the deepest sort, the kind that happens when we are forced to find a way to live in the midst of grief.' --Foreword

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