So Much to Love: So Much to Lose explores the vibrancy of love, mottled with loss and the threat of more loss. The poetry arises from the natural world and experiences of living in personal, societal, and ecological relationships. Moore dwells on the complexities of love, as it reveals beauty, tragedy, and deep relations among all beings of creation. The same love awakens readers to the pain of loss and evokes hope for a world in which all life flourishes and in which natural cycles of loss can be grieved and embraced, while human-made violence and destruction can be abhorred and protested. This book is an invitation to people who are searching for spiritual depths in our beautiful and tragic world. It invites readers to meditate, imagine, and ponder their own lives in the living web of the planet.

Mary Elizabeth Moore is dean emerita and professor emerita of theology and education in the Boston University School of Theology. Her poetry focuses on earth themes, human and ecological relationships, mourning, and hope. In other writing, she explores transformative theology and practices: Teaching as a Sacramental Act, Ministering with the Earth, and Teaching from the Heart, plus edited volumes, Deep Understanding for Divisive Times, A Living Tradition, and Children, Youth, Spirituality in a Troubling World.