“Nancy Thompson doesn’t set out to make the book about her, but one can’t help feeling as they progress from chapter to chapter that Thompson has suddenly, yet quietly, become a good friend.” –Telly Halkias, Bennington Banner
Touching the Elephant: Values the World’s Religions Share and How They Can Transform Us is a unifying meditation on common values stemming from the world’s major religions.
Available at an independent bookstore near you and the following online booksellers:
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Published by Cosimo Giovine
Cosimo Giovine (he/him/his) earned an MFA, Fiction from Columbia University (2003), taught in high schools and colleges from 1992 until 2012, and is the publisher at Zio Apollo Press since 2012.
His writing has appeared in Glimmer Train Magazine, “Dream Book” (Glimmer Train 2007), Close Up: Poems on Cancer, Grief, Hope, and Healing, “Last Spring” (Orchard Lea Books 2022), and San Diego Poetry Annual 2024-2025, “A Bird’s Song” (San Diego Poetry Annual 2024).
Currently, Cosimo promotes literacy and learning as a library assistant. And when he’s not at the library, he’s reworking a line of poetry, reading something new, or promoting a good book.
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