The Sky Begins at Your Feet: A Memoir on Cancer, Community, and Coming Home to the Body

In this powerful, tender and humorous memoir about resiliency and love in the face of cancer, Mirriam-Goldberg braves breast cancer, the breast cancer genetic mutation and the loss of a parent by connecting with an eclectic Midwest community. Along the way, she swims with stingrays in the Gulf of Mexico, searches for cream puffs for a Pennsylvania funeral, leads a group fighting to protect ecologically-essential land in Kansas, and helps students find their own voice in Vermont. In searching for a new definition of the erotic through our awareness of nature, this memoir illuminates how our bodies are our most local address on the earth.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is Poet Laureate of Kansas, a long-time bioregional leader, and the author of ten books, including poetry, anthologies and memoir. Founder of Transformative Language Arts at Goddard College.