Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

  • The Theory and Practice of Rivers

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    Jim Harrison’s The Theory and Practice of Rivers returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.

    In her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, i

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    • Author: Harrison, Jim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1556597185
    • Language: English
  • The Theory and Practice of Rivers

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    Jim Harrison’s The Theory and Practice of Rivers returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume.

    In her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, i

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    • Author: Harrison, Jim
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: May 20 2025
    • ISBN10: 1556597134
    • Language: English
  • Close Escapes

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    Navigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor, Close Escapes searches for an answer to our earthly existence by way of visions only the blind can see.

    “Never ‘in’ time,” Stephen Kuusis

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    • Author: Kuusisto, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: April 22 2025
    • ISBN10: 1556596898
    • Language: English
  • Stay Until Tomorrow: Poems

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    Stay until Tomorrow by Meghan A. Patricia Wentworth is a debut collection of autobiographical poems shedding light on trauma, heartache, love, loss, and the poet’s self-healing journey. These poems ar

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    • Author: Wentworth, Meghan A. Patricia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 74
    • Publish Date: April 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 1578691885
    • Language: English
  • The Worried Well

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    The Worried Well, selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the winner of the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, is a tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic

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  • Florence

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    Bess Cooley’s Florence is an artful and touching collection of poems with piercing meditations on loss, time, and memory. Cooley’s speaker muses about how changes in the body and brain can alter ident

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    • Author: Cooley, Bess
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1951979664
    • Language: English
  • Late to the Search Party: Poems

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    A raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss–a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life.

    The unsett

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    • Author: Dawson, Steven Espada
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668081563
    • Language: English
  • With My Back to the World: Poems

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    Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection
    Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR
    Named One of the Best Poetry Collections of the Year by The Guardian, Lit

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    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 0374615977
    • Language: English
  • Outside the Joy

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    Outside the Joy is filled with poems that sear with lyric clarity about grief, love, survival, and wonder amid personal loss and environmental collapse.

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    • Author: Awad, Ruth
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798986614595
    • Language: English
  • crash & bloom: A poetry collection of grief & gratitude

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    mama, am I going to make it, is it going to be okay
    will I lose my breasts, my hair, my eyelashes
    will I lose my identity, femininity, my dignity
    will I recognize myself in mirrors, in photos, in memorie… [more below]

    • Author: Machnik, Sara
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 246
    • Publish Date: October 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 1038316839
    • Language: English
  • The Four Faces of Eve: A Tribute to Survival

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    Though Constance E. Boyle, Brooke Granville, Petra Perkins and Gail Waldstein have different faces, personalities, and life experiences, they all share qualities implied by the name, “Eve,” a word wit

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    • Author: Perkins, Petra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 130
    • Publish Date: February 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1952232937
    • Language: English
  • Unraveled

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    Confront the hard truths of emotions and intimacy.

    Facing both the painful and transformative reality of love is not easy. Yet the heart longs to reconcile love with suffering. Amid emotional devastati

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    • Author: Kassoff, Kelli
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: February 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798822964815
    • Language: English
  • Unraveled

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    Confront the hard truths of emotions and intimacy.

    Facing both the painful and transformative reality of love is not easy. Yet the heart longs to reconcile love with suffering. Amid emotional devastati

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    • Author: Kassoff, Kelli
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 78
    • Publish Date: February 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798822964822
    • Language: English
  • Leaked Footages

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    Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

    The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill th

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    • Series: African Poetry Book
    • Author: Sadiq, Abu Bakr
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 102
    • Publish Date: November 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1496240138
    • Language: English
  • New and Collected Hell: A Poem

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    Shane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.

    Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell
    Is

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    • Author: McCrae, Shane
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: February 11 2025
    • ISBN10: 0374615497
    • Language: English
  • Good Grief

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    “Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the past can be and that overcoming it is possible. If you want to feel seen and deeply

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    • Author: Pastor, Brianna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063359650
    • Language: English
  • A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press

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    Copper Canyon Press celebrates its first 50 years of poetry publishing in anticipation of the next 50 years.

    Poetry is vital to language and living. This anthology celebrates 50 years of Copper Canyon

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    • Author: Wiegers, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 500
    • Publish Date: February 28 2023
    • ISBN10: 1556596626
    • Language: English
  • The Dead Peasant’s Handbook

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    Following the loose series of Turner’s other recent 2023 publications, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, this third book in this “collection” serves as a poetic guide to help… [more below]

    • Author: Turner, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949944557
    • Language: English
  • The Holy & Broken Bliss

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    How can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How can we respond to the double plague of a fierce pandemic and a divided society? The keenly observant and urge

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    • Author: Ostriker, Alicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: October 08 2024
    • ISBN10: 1949944670
    • Language: English
  • The Widow’s Crayon Box: Poems

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    After her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems–joyful, furio

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    • Author: Peacock, Molly
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 1324079436
    • Language: English
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