This is the first book to show the reader how to open to the immensity of living with death, to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. Levine provides calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death.[...]

Poet and meditation teacher Levine writes simply and gently about his own personal experiences with and insights into vipassana meditation. An inspiring book for anyone interested in deep personal growth.[...]

Follows the natural progression work done with terminally ill patients, meditation, and dying by examining the realm of the human relationship--both romantic and familial[...]

In Breaking the Drought, poetic sensibility bubbles forth in its native voice. Working less with patients, Stephen can go back to his starting place as a writer, with time to fine tune what emerges. These 81 poems exquisitely express a life well spent in quest of wisdom, openness, spirituality, and [...]

Barriers to Loving is an intriguing exploration of the role of sexual love over the course of life. Beginning with the mental health professions' avoidance of the topic, Levine proposes a compendium of love's pathologies by reorganizing what is familiar to clinicians into the barriers that limit the[...]

"Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering" explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negati[...]