{"product_id":"carrying-the-bones-rituals-for-a-dying-world-paperback","title":"Carrying the Bones: Rituals for a Dying World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEileen Elizabeth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarrying the Bones \u003c\/i\u003ebraids memoir, cultural criticism, and poetics to ask how we might mourn meaningfully in an era of environmental crisis and pandemic loss. Moving between the personal and the planetary, the book traverses landscapes from Appalachian forests and West Coast cemeteries to Arctic tundra and Sámi song traditions, drawing on ancient Greek lyric, Indigenous cosmologies, and contemporary ecological thought. Each of the four sections serves as a ritual space: an act of carrying the dead, tending their memories, and imagining futures beyond despair. Through fieldwork, historical research, and intimate narrative from a queer perspective, author Eileen Elizabeth explores how grief can be more than private sorrow--it can become an artistic, communal, and ecological practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy providing narrative and ritual prompts at a moment when traditional funerary customs have been disrupted and many people lack scripts for grief, \u003ci\u003eCarrying the Bones\u003c\/i\u003e empowers individuals--especially those who identify as secular or spiritually unaffiliated--to craft new rites of remembrance. It offers a luminous contribution to ongoing conversations about how art, language, and ritual can help us face mortality and care for a dying world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEileen Elizabeth\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and essayist. She cofounded \u003ci\u003eBoshemia \u003c\/i\u003emagazine and has written for a variety of publications, including \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Joyland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Bellevue Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Appalachian Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Pangyrus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 5.5 x 8.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46368932233351,"sku":"9781985904897","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/fqRjUgw9kB9781985904897.webp?v=1793332239","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/carrying-the-bones-rituals-for-a-dying-world-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}