Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place

by Clare Cooper Marcus

On This Page

Description

A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir Iona Dreaming is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a life-threatening illness, which deepens into a contemplation of the events in her life and her physical, emotional show more and spiritual healing. Clare Cooper Marcus brings both a personal and academic life-long interface with place, environment, and people. Her five previous books about human response to architecture and environment were popular with the public and well-received by the press. Iona Dreaming will reach out to a broad audience: people entering retirement, dealing with serious illnesses, gardeners, lovers of nature, architects and landscape architects, people who are becoming more heath conscious, women who have shared the social and cultural shifts she lived through--especially those coming of age in the 60's--and all those who seek a more authentic life. show less

Tags

Recommendations

Member Reviews

3 reviews
A nicely done memoir of a retired professor's healing journeys post cancer. Marcus designs healing garden's and is articulate about her relationship with landscape.
amazon.com:

A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir Iona Dreaming is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a life-threatening illness, which deepens into a contemplation of the events in her life and her physical, emotional and spiritual healing.

Clare Cooper Marcus brings both a personal and academic life-long interface with place, environment and people. Her five previous books about human response to architecture and environment were popular with the show more public and well-received by the press. Iona Dreaming will reach out to a broad audience: people entering retirement, dealing with serious illnesses, gardeners, lovers of nature, architects and landscape architects, people who are becoming more heath conscious, women who have shared the social and cultural shifts she lived through--especially those coming of age in the 60's--and all those who seek a more authentic life. show less
Această carte este un poem dramatic în care Marin Sorescu reinterpretează povestea biblică a profetului Iona, explorând tema fricii, responsabilității și a confruntării cu destinul.

📖 Despre autor

a) Marin Sorescu (1936–1996) a fost un poet, dramaturg și eseist român de renume.
b) Este cunoscut pentru umorul său ironic, dar și pentru adâncimea filozofică a operei sale.
c) A abordat teme precum condiția umană, absurdul și relația individului cu societatea și divinitatea.

📚 Despre volum

a) Iona este un poem dramatic publicat în 1982.
b) Reinterpretează mitul biblic al profetului Iona, care fuge de misiunea sa divină.
c) Combină lirismul poetic cu dialogul dramatic și simbolismul.

🔎 Teme principale

a) Frica și show more fuga individului de responsabilitate.
b) Conflictul dintre destin, voința divină și libertatea personală.
c) Suferința, introspecția și căutarea sensului vieții.
d) Relația omului cu divinitatea și propria conștiință.

⚖️ Semnificație

a) O lucrare emblematică pentru dramaturgia și poezia lui Marin Sorescu.
b) Reflectă dilemele morale și existențiale universale ale omului.
c) Contribuie la literatura română modernă prin originalitatea stilului și profunzimea tematică.
show less

Members

Recently Added By

Author Information

9 Works 359 Members
Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of bestselling House as Mirror of Self and co-author/editor of Healing Gardens.

Common Knowledge

Alternate titles
Iona Dreaming: The Healing Power of Place: A Memoir

Classifications

Genres
Nonfiction, Travel, Biography & Memoir, Religion & Spirituality, History
DDC/MDS
941.4History & geographyHistory of EuropeBritish IslesSouthern Scotland
LCC
DA880 .I7 .M143History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaGreat BritainHistory of Great BritainScotlandLocal history and description
BISAC

Statistics

Members
23
Popularity
1,143,398
Reviews
3
Rating
(3.75)
Languages
English
Media
Paper, Ebook
ISBNs
2