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Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin writes creative non fiction, poetry, fiction and plays.

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PUBLISHED: May.02.2011

Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World (co-editor)

This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and mediations, Transforming Terror powerfully demonstrates that terrorist violence--defined here as any attack on unarmed civilians--can never be stopped by a return to the thinking that created it. A...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.08.2008

Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy

What does is it mean to be a citizen of the United States? Susan Griffin’s provocative investigation of that question takes us from the Declaration of Independence to the Iraq War, with many stops in between. Her conclusion: democracy is nothing less than a revolution of consciousness, and the revolution has just begun.

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What Her Body Thought

In this boldly intimate and intelligent blend of personal memoir, social history, and cultural criticism, Susan Griffin profoundly illuminates our understanding of illness. She explores its physical, emotional, spiritual, and social aspects, revealing how it magnifies our yearning for connection and reconciliation. Griffin begins with a gripping account of her own harrowing...

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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

In Woman and Nature, Susan Griffin reveals the connection between feminism and ecology. Among the first to explore this subject, she probes the patterns of thought and behavior that have led to the destruction of nature, the oppression of women and the diminishment of both in the Western imagination. She elucidates the association of women with matter in European culture in the...

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A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

A Chorus of Stones offers a radical revisoning of the nature of war and gender, through an illuminating interplay between between private suffering and public tragedy. The book sets the story of the invention, development, manufacture and use of the first atomic bombs against the background of struggles played out in the private lives of major figures in history and ordinary...

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About Susan

Susan Griffin is a well-known writer and poet. Her latest book, Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy, On Being an American Citizen, is about the inner life of democracy. She has published nineteen books, including The Book of the Courtesans, A Catalogue of...

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Causes Susan Griffin Supports

Ella Baker Center, www.ellebakercenter.org, Campaign for...

Susan’s Favorite Books

Leo Tolstoi, Anna Karenina, John Berger Pig Earth, Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway, Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence,Toni Morrison, Beloved, Walt Whitman, Leaves...

Susan GriffinSusan Griffin writes creative non fiction, poetry, fiction and plays.

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Susan Griffin
Susan Griffin writes creative non fiction, poetry, fiction and plays.