Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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The Autobiography of Rain
$19.00 Add to cartThe poems in Lana Hechtman Ayers’ The Autobiography of Rain explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty. It is in the most stricken
- Author: Ayers, Lana Hechtman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1594981388
- Language: English
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Rain to Root: poems of meeting grief and grace
$15.99 Add to cartIn this debut collection of poems, Kim Birdsong explores the often fierce and disorienting landscape of grief. In the year following the death of her son, Kim turned toward writing to try to cope with
- Author: Birdsong, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218505431
- Language: English
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i have wrestled with the way clouds weep
$12.00 Add to cart“This is my garden among rubble,” writes Judy Nahum in this intricate and beautiful collection. And indeed, the world conjured between these pages is in a constant state of transformation. Sea shells … [more below]
- Author: Nahum, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118889
- Language: English
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After Image
$17.00 Add to cartWoven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.
A house, an orchard, “a shudder of blossoms.” A fountain, a bed, a sudden spr… [more below]
- Author: George, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596952
- Language: English
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About Time
$18.00 Add to cartNeil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent gl… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Hilborn, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638342024
- Language: English
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Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“A lyrical, radiant memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences
- Author: Wroe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1400347939
- Language: English
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It Must Be a Misunderstanding
$16.95 Read moreIt Must Be a Misunderstanding is the acclaimed Mexican poet Coral Bracho’s most personal and emotive collection to date, dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer’s. Remarkably,… [more below]
- Author: Bracho, Coral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231399
- Language: English
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The Final Voicemails: Poems
$22.00 Read more“Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go.” From Max Ritvo–selected and edited by Louise Gl?k–comes a final collection of poems fully insc
- Author: Ritvo, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 157131511X
- Language: English
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Twice Alive
$16.95 Read moreIn the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that… [more below]
- Author: Gander, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230295
- Language: English
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Path of Totality: Poems
$16.95 Read moreExploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that follows, this collection of poetry renders a shattering experience with candor and immediacy.
This co
- Author: Pollari, Niina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 159376703X
- Language: English
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Iggy Horse
$18.00 Read moreNew collection from Michael Earl Craig, farrier and former poet laureate of Montana.
In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and u
- Author: Craig, Michael Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268756
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$27.00 Read morePeter Gizzi’s powerful new collection reminds us that the elegy is lament but also–as it has been for centuries–a work of love
Peter Gizzi has said that “the elegy is a mode that can transform a brok
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Gizzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500674
- Language: English
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Godhouse
$22.95 Add to cartPoems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.
Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notio- Author: Kocher, Ruth Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1632431165
- Language: English
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Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Chessy Normile’s debut collection, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, asks what would happen if we actually believed language to be a creative f… [more below]
- Author: Normile, Chessy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0986093823
- Language: English
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Chariot
$18.00 Read moreTimothy Donnelly’s fourth collection of poems, Chariot, ferries the reader toward an endless horizon of questioning that is both philosophical and deeply embodied.
“How did we get here?” he asks in hi… [more below]
- Author: Donnelly, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268772
- Language: English
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Firebird
$14.95 Read moreEnergetic, formally audacious poems by a recently rediscovered Polish writer, shining examples of art as resistance.
Zuzanna Ginczanka’s last poem, “Non omnis moriar…” (“Not all of me shall die”), w- Author: Ginczanka, Zuzanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377306
- Language: English
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Black Movie
$12.00 Read more2014 Button Poetry Prize Winner
“These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ‘a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children / smiling into the camera & the last shot… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry Contest Winner #3
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 194373500X
- Language: English
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Light for the World to See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope
$14.99 Read moreFrom NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in Ame… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0358539412
- Language: English
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Selected Books of the Beloved
$18.00 Read moreAn expansive, lyric testament to the formidable mystery of love, spanning several previous volumes all in dedication to the beloved.
For more than a decade, Gregory Orr has been writing toward “the Bo… [more below]
- Author: Orr, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596537
- Language: English
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An Abundance of Caution
$24.00 Read moreA poetry collection lending a voice to finding grace in a time marked by environmental crisis, global pandemic, and personal loss, answering uncertainty with clarity, imagination, and compassion in li
- Author: Witte, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0991378067
- Language: English
