Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark

by Barbara Hurd

Book Overview

In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618191380
• ISBN13: 9780618191383
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

"The stone's alive with what's invisible" Seamus Heaney

Very seldom do I read a book twice. ENTERING THE STONE is one of those books. Barbara Hurd's reflections seep under your skin and take you places you've never been. It is frightening and revealing and profound. Hurd has discovered that in our deepest journeys a secret space may emerge, a white dog, the shape of emptiness, a spacious room.

An emotional meditation on life when light is gone

It is a strange blessing that I ran across an excerpt of this book online and sought it out. The local library had a copy. I wondered about the experience of a novice spelunking. What I found was one woman's meditation on sorrow and loss and fear and awareness, and how reason and passion, how space and solid, how dark and light criss-cross and make the liminal experiences telling. Please don't fault her beforehand if I sound too intellectual about it, too. It's a beautifully written exploration of the meaning of life, but it's sometimes very down-to-earth, too.