Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Carrying the Bones: Rituals for a Dying World

Carrying the Bones: Rituals for a Dying World

Elizabeth, Eileen

Hardcover

Series: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices

Biographies GeneralMythology & FolkloreGLBTQIA Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 13, 2026

ISBN10: 198590490X
ISBN13: 9781985904903
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Oct 13 2026
Pages: 152
Language: English

Carrying the Bones braids 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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Elizabeth, Eileen

View All

Also in

Biographies General

View All