Sebastião Salgado. Terra: Struggle of the Landless. Phaidon. $55.00. 143 pages. For Cami Several years ago at a conference on liberation theology at Maryknoll, my wife, Mev Puleo, asked the noted Salvadoran theologian Jon Sobrino how…
My copy of The Book of Mev arrived at the most opportune, and the most inopportune time imaginable. I was living in the Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend, Indiana and was being exposed to…
I am not sure why, but when I finished reading The Book of Mev, I hugged it. Maybe my body wanted to be closer to tangible truth. Maybe I was trying to express my gratitude to…
I recently came across this piece of correspondence from January 2006. Mark, I hardly know what to write. I just finished your book (minutes ago) and was so moved by your beautiful remembrance of your…
Sitting across from a friend Downtown Gelateria I’d just given her The Book of Mev (Her silent, deep response I’ll never forget) I offered to read her something So I turned the pages and came…
Ann said to Mev “In the middle of a war There are many times When you feel God is more absent than present And yet, there are always Moments of grace and revelation When you…
Dear Mark, I’m at Schiphol. I started your Book of Mev again and read it in about 7 hours. After p. 251, I cried through nearly every page. p. 303 nearly killed me. At the wake, p….
Doc, I finally had access to my mailbox today. Your masterpiece was waiting for me. I needed it. I have been cold for months now; avoiding emotions, running away from hurt, fleeing pain. I was…