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Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War Susan Griffin
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

I get it that in a moment everything I love and value can disappear in a cyclone, a flood or fire. 1943), A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, p. In chapter 2, “Denial”, she writes,. Susan Griffin's astonishing and perception-changing A Chorus of Stones clarifies the unavoidable and stark reality of how world events shape our personal values and lives. For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung” (Griffin, 1992, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War). Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder; A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin; The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean; Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick; A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr. I have been reading A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War by Susan Griffin. Perhaps we are like stones as i settle into this quiet, drizzly monday evening, the first day of fall semester coming to a close.i take down a book from the shelf. Susan Griffin's long essay, a chapter in her book A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, is about the hidden shame and pain humans carry and their consequences. How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? Susan Griffin's collection of history, memoir, and tentative speculations, A Chorus of Stones, is built to be incomplete, to be structured as a ruin. €�I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. But Griffin's book is not about natural disasters. By the time Marie Colvin got herself smuggled into Syria last winter, to report on the slaughter for the London Sunday Times, she was a legend, for her style (the eye patch, the La Perla bra under the flak jacket) as well as her courageous dispatches championing the Can't someone shut him up?,” Marie Colvin whispered urgently after dropping into the long, dark, dank tunnel that would lead her to the last reporting assignment of her life. €�All those we lose, and all that we love works its way into our language,” this writes Susan Griffin in A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of Wars. "a chorus of stones: the private life of war" by susan griffin. Also, I recommend A CHORUS OF STONES: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF WAR by Susan Griffin, another truly great book that looks at the continuum of aggression from individual/family to the public sphere. I am reminded of A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War, Sue Griffin's haunting meditation on war and its continuing emotional toll. It is a powerful treatise illuminating the interplay between private suffering and public tragedy, the violence in families and in world wars. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.” - Susan Griffin (b.