1st Edition

Lessons on Aging and Dying A Poetic Autoethnography

By Ronald J. Pelias Copyright 2021
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Lessons in Aging and Dying: A Poetic Autoethnography captures the experience of being elderly and facing the end of life. The book presents a collection of poems about life’s end accompanied with narrative commentary. Organized as 73 lessons, they can be read as personal curiosities, momentary realizations, farcical departures, embarrassing fears, therapeutic encounters, experiential... Read more

Beginning in the End  Unit I: Beginnings  Unit II: From Here to There  Unit III: Endings Ending in the Beginning

Biography

Ronald J. Pelias is currently teaching part-time in the theatre program at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. His most recent books are Writing Performance, Identity, and Everyday Life (2018) and The Creative Qualitative Researcher (2019).