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Silentium

by Connie T Braun
Hardcover |English |1498243029 | 9781498243025

Silentium

by Connie T Braun
Hardcover |English |1498243029 | 9781498243025
Overview

With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her maternal grandparents' and her mother's life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. In these pages, and in consecutive travels to Poland, the author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning. Private memory within the historical record reveals people caught up in catastrophe striving to survive with their humanity intact. These are stories crafted from silence and language, memory and obscurity, faith and doubt, chaos and hope, the past, and future possibility. Telling and listening to stories performs the acts of mourning and witness, and attests to the regenerative and transcendent qualities of narrative. ""Connie Braun offers us fragments of family past that refuse to be forgotten: glimpses of happiness, shards of horror and exile. Her meditations reveal how, at their best, food and sewing and photographs and family gossip can transform bits of memory into quiet, understanding beauty."" --Rudy Wiebe, Author of Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize ""'In the aftermath of violent histories, telling stories and listening to stories are acts of peace, ' writes this daughter of World War II refugees. Seeking family memories and public records, Braun engages a range of writers, and returns to Poland three times, on 'grief's long migration, ' to claim the lost homelands of the Mennonites, Jews and Catholics. With beauty and skill, she renders the implications of a history that reaches from the Crusades to the concentration camps, determined to trace its imprint on the generation born into elegiac silence. This book is essential to any quest to make emotional sense of the displacement, dispossession, and holocausts of the last century."" --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, award winning poet ""Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace."" --Gregory Wolfe, Author of Beauty Will Save the World, founder and editor of Image Journal Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.
ISBN: 1498243029
ISBN13: 9781498243025
Author: Connie T Braun
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2017-09-26
Language: English
PageCount: 182
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.44 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 14.56 ounces

With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her maternal grandparents' and her mother's life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. In these pages, and in consecutive travels to Poland, the author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning. Private memory within the historical record reveals people caught up in catastrophe striving to survive with their humanity intact. These are stories crafted from silence and language, memory and obscurity, faith and doubt, chaos and hope, the past, and future possibility. Telling and listening to stories performs the acts of mourning and witness, and attests to the regenerative and transcendent qualities of narrative. ""Connie Braun offers us fragments of family past that refuse to be forgotten: glimpses of happiness, shards of horror and exile. Her meditations reveal how, at their best, food and sewing and photographs and family gossip can transform bits of memory into quiet, understanding beauty."" --Rudy Wiebe, Author of Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize ""'In the aftermath of violent histories, telling stories and listening to stories are acts of peace, ' writes this daughter of World War II refugees. Seeking family memories and public records, Braun engages a range of writers, and returns to Poland three times, on 'grief's long migration, ' to claim the lost homelands of the Mennonites, Jews and Catholics. With beauty and skill, she renders the implications of a history that reaches from the Crusades to the concentration camps, determined to trace its imprint on the generation born into elegiac silence. This book is essential to any quest to make emotional sense of the displacement, dispossession, and holocausts of the last century."" --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, award winning poet ""Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace."" --Gregory Wolfe, Author of Beauty Will Save the World, founder and editor of Image Journal Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.

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Overview

With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her maternal grandparents' and her mother's life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. In these pages, and in consecutive travels to Poland, the author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning. Private memory within the historical record reveals people caught up in catastrophe striving to survive with their humanity intact. These are stories crafted from silence and language, memory and obscurity, faith and doubt, chaos and hope, the past, and future possibility. Telling and listening to stories performs the acts of mourning and witness, and attests to the regenerative and transcendent qualities of narrative. ""Connie Braun offers us fragments of family past that refuse to be forgotten: glimpses of happiness, shards of horror and exile. Her meditations reveal how, at their best, food and sewing and photographs and family gossip can transform bits of memory into quiet, understanding beauty."" --Rudy Wiebe, Author of Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize ""'In the aftermath of violent histories, telling stories and listening to stories are acts of peace, ' writes this daughter of World War II refugees. Seeking family memories and public records, Braun engages a range of writers, and returns to Poland three times, on 'grief's long migration, ' to claim the lost homelands of the Mennonites, Jews and Catholics. With beauty and skill, she renders the implications of a history that reaches from the Crusades to the concentration camps, determined to trace its imprint on the generation born into elegiac silence. This book is essential to any quest to make emotional sense of the displacement, dispossession, and holocausts of the last century."" --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, award winning poet ""Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace."" --Gregory Wolfe, Author of Beauty Will Save the World, founder and editor of Image Journal Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.
ISBN: 1498243029
ISBN13: 9781498243025
Author: Connie T Braun
Publisher: Wipf and Stock
Format: Hardcover
PublicationDate: 2017-09-26
Language: English
PageCount: 182
Dimensions: 6.0 x 0.44 x 9.0 inches
Weight: 14.56 ounces

With this collection of meditative, personal, memoir, and lyrical essays and narrative poetry, Connie T. Braun explores the multi-valences of silence within themes of loss, displacement, identity, heritage, and faith. Reflecting on her childhood in Canada, and her ancestral Mennonite homeplace, these pieces form a memoir about her maternal grandparents' and her mother's life in Poland, their experiences of war and displacement, and their eventual immigration and acculturation. In these pages, and in consecutive travels to Poland, the author invites the reader to accompany her as she traverses the territory of old and new worlds, war and peace, the landscape of dispossession, and the mass forced migrations of World War II within the ground of holocaust. Braun conveys through story that not only words, but silences, speak meaning. Private memory within the historical record reveals people caught up in catastrophe striving to survive with their humanity intact. These are stories crafted from silence and language, memory and obscurity, faith and doubt, chaos and hope, the past, and future possibility. Telling and listening to stories performs the acts of mourning and witness, and attests to the regenerative and transcendent qualities of narrative. ""Connie Braun offers us fragments of family past that refuse to be forgotten: glimpses of happiness, shards of horror and exile. Her meditations reveal how, at their best, food and sewing and photographs and family gossip can transform bits of memory into quiet, understanding beauty."" --Rudy Wiebe, Author of Of This Earth: a Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize ""'In the aftermath of violent histories, telling stories and listening to stories are acts of peace, ' writes this daughter of World War II refugees. Seeking family memories and public records, Braun engages a range of writers, and returns to Poland three times, on 'grief's long migration, ' to claim the lost homelands of the Mennonites, Jews and Catholics. With beauty and skill, she renders the implications of a history that reaches from the Crusades to the concentration camps, determined to trace its imprint on the generation born into elegiac silence. This book is essential to any quest to make emotional sense of the displacement, dispossession, and holocausts of the last century."" --Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Author of The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, award winning poet ""Silentium is that rarest of books: it accompanies us, thoughtfully and compassionately, on a journey into tragic and traumatic experiences without giving into either despair or sentimentality. Connie Braun shows us how honest, artful language can emerge out of a dialogue with silence and enable us to experience both grief and grace."" --Gregory Wolfe, Author of Beauty Will Save the World, founder and editor of Image Journal Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Connie T. Braun is an instructor of creative writing and the author of The Steppes are the Colour of Sepia (2008) and two collections of poetry. Her academic and personal essays, poetry, and reviews appear in various anthologies, journals, and publications. For over twenty years she has served on boards for the arts and writing, nonprofit organizations, and, most currently, an advisory committee for the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at the University of the Fraser Valley.

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  • Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.
  • Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable.

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  • Packages are shipped from Monday to Friday.
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Estimated delivery times:

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  • Expedited Shipping: 3-5 business days

Shipping method varies depending on what is being shipped.  

Tracking
All orders are shipped with a tracking number. Once your order has left our warehouse, a confirmation e-mail with a tracking number will be sent to you. You will be able to track your package at all times. 

Damaged Parcel
If your package has been delivered in a PO Box, please note that we are not responsible for any damage that may result (consequences of extreme temperatures, theft, etc.). 

If you have any questions regarding shipping or want to know about the status of an order, please contact us or email to support@stevensbooks.com.

You may return most items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund.

To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.

Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Additional non-returnable items:

  • Gift cards
  • Downloadable software products
  • Some health and personal care items

To complete your return, we require a tracking number, which shows the items which you already returned to us.
There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)

  • Book with obvious signs of use
  • CD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been opened
  • Any item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our error
  • Any item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery

Items returned to us as a result of our error will receive a full refund,some returns may be subject to a restocking fee of 7% of the total item price, please contact a customer care team member to see if your return is subject. Returns that arrived on time and were as described are subject to a restocking fee.

Items returned to us that were not the result of our error, including items returned to us due to an invalid or incomplete address, will be refunded the original item price less our standard restocking fees.

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If you need to return an item, please Contact Us with your order number and details about the product you would like to return. We will respond quickly with instructions for how to return items from your order.


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Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary.

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