商品簡介
This is one of the most innovative and original books I have read on the subject of death and dying, one that will both stimulate and challenge the reader with compelling insights and perceptive understanding---an invaluable contribution. Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, D.H.L., D.D. Author, Living When a Loved One Has Died
Kent Koppelman addresses coming to terms with tragic loss and offers much good information with his own inimitable style of humor and poetic license, with beautiful poetry and prose and deep philosophic insight into tragedy and courage. It is a highly useful work, to be read again and again. If you purchase this book, it will be one that becomes well crumpled---as all good books are! Whatever you take from this book, some piece of it will be meaningful. For me, reading it has been meaningful both personally and professionally. Daniel Rudofossi, Psy. D., Ph.D., New York University Author, A Cop Doc's Guide to Public Safety Complex Trauma Syndrome
Wrestling with the Angel is a major addition to the classic works in dying, death, and grief. For those with a love of literature, this marvelous work includes not only prose, but poetry, a short story, and a wonderful play. In warm and simple language, Kent Koppelman addresses issues faced by men in grieving the loss of a child, in a uniquely masculine approach to this topic. Unlike most grief and bereavement works, this book addresses male issues, in a humorous yet thoughtful and compassionate way that offers men the strength and direction they need to survive with tremendous loss. Women will also enjoy this marvelous book and its insights into the special nature of a father's grief and response to grief. Dr. Gerry R. Cox, Emeritus Professor of Sociology Center for Death Education & Bioethics University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
作者簡介
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kent Koppelman graduated from the University of Nebraska, taught high school English and social studies in Nebraska, Connecticut, and Iowa, then earned his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. He accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where for 28 years he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in foundations, diversity issues, and multicultural education. In 1988, Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction selected him as Teacher Educator of the Year. This achievement was followed by a family tragedy in 1989, when his son, Jason, was killed in a car accident. Dr. Koppelman described his experience with loss and grief in his first book, The Fall of a Sparrow: Of Death and Dreams and Healing (1994). Throughout his career, Dr. Koppelman has published essays and given presentations at state, national, and international conferences. His second book, Values in the Key of Life: Making Harmony in the Human Community (2001), consists of essays on the need to choose between conflicting values and the implications of such choices in everyday life. He has also written a textbook for college courses in diversity and multicultural education, Understanding Human Differences: Multicultural Education for a Diverse America (Allyn and Bacon, 2004; 2nd edition, 2007) and is now working on an anthology on diversity issues (Allyn & Bacon, spring 2010). Dr. Koppelman retired in May 2007, and in the fall of that year, the College of Human Sciences at Iowa State University presented him with the Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate Award to honor his "distinguished achievement in the field of education." He and his wife, Jan, have been married for 38 years, and their daughter, Tess, is a broadcast journalist in Kansas City.
