Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul
$19.99 Read more“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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My Infinity
$17.95 Add to cartIn her second collection, My Infinity, Didi Jackson continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist.
These poems investigate both sacred and
- Author: Jackson, Didi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1636281605
- Language: English
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Deep Dive
$15.00 Add to cart- Author: Carter, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1963943104
- Language: English
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The Cloud Path: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartAn imaginative reworking of the elegy that focuses on the difficult work of being with the dying.
At the heart of The Cloud Path, celebrated author Melissa Kwasny’s seventh collection of poetry, lies t… [more below]
- Author: Kwasny, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550925
- Language: English
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Under This Roof
$18.00 Add to cartIn her thoughtful debut collection, Theresa Monteiro uses the scenery of domestic and daily life to call forth fear and loss: the magnitude of human experience seen through the details of the ordinary
- Author: Monteiro, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1594981442
- Language: English
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Opium and Ambergris
$18.00 Read more- Series: Wick First Book
- Author: Dekeersgieter, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1606354833
- Language: English
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Middle Distance: Poems
$16.95 Read moreAfter a diagnosis of cancer, acclaimed poet Stanley Plumly found himself in the middle distance–looking back at his childhood and a rich lifetime of family and friends, while gazing into a future sha
- Author: Plumly, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882497
- Language: English
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Here, at the end.
$14.99 Add to cartAlice Teeter’s Book of Revelations is gentle and brutal, devoid of the supernatural and full of nature. Her poetry gives us a recipe, a warning, a hint at what is to come. Somehow she scares us and re
- Author: Teeter, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1665306149
- Language: English
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Who Am I: Mending a Lost Identity
$11.95 Add to cartAnvil Long was devastated to learn he had been conceived during a date rape incident. His lineage, which he had once believed to be an essential element of his being, was lost forever. The pain and in
- Author: Long, Anvil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148218
- Language: English
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Relative Sanity: Poems
$28.95 Add to cartAn elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan’s north country.
“This lovely collection is a kind of t
- Author: Lord, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997687
- Language: English
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The Rwanda Poems: Voices and Visions from the Genocide
$18.95 Add to cartThe only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only o
- Author: Kaufman, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1630450812
- Language: English
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25 Poems on the Death of Ursula K. Le Guin
$12.00 Add to cartPortland-based writer M. F. McAuliffe was shocked by the death of Ursula K. Le Guin more than she could have imagined because she’d never imagined it at all. These twenty five unconventional elegies,
- Author: McAuliffe, M. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: November 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1684544718
- Language: English
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Otherlight
$18.00 Add to cartJill Mceldowney’s Otherlight plunges us into the rarefied limbo of grief. Suspended in time, in action, in ice, its speaker is halfway out the door of this world-is half-turned to follow the beloved w
- Author: McEldowney, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1936919958
- Language: English
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In the Unwalled City
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Unwalled City takes its title from Epicurus, who wrote: “Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city.” This
- Author: Cording, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1639821147
- Language: English
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Quiet As it’s Kept
$21.99 Add to cart Na’Tosha De’Von’s inaugural book of poetry highlights Black girl joy, trauma, love and loss. With an emphasis on healing, she takes the reader on a journey of true vulnerability and s
- Author: De’von, Na’tosha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218147938
- Language: English
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atrophy
$13.00 Add to cartOn the heels of her memoir, FEVER, Niziolek’s debut poetry collection, atrophy, continues pulling even further at the same threads: desire, grief, trauma, love, and illness. However, the primary beast
- Author: Niziolek, Shilo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: September 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118676
- Language: English
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The Trouble with Light
$19.95 Add to cartIn The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical po… [more below]
- Series: Miller Williams Poetry Prize
- Author: Clark, Jeremy Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: March 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1682262499
- Language: English
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A Case for Solace
$18.00 Add to cartLiz Ahl’s second full-length collection contemplates grieving and the quests for solace that guide – for better and for worse – living in the face of loss. The losses in this book – of life, of health
- Author: Ahl, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1957755059
- Language: English
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Clarion Hope
$10.49 Add to cartdare to dream that there’s more than this broken road,
and that beauty may lie on tomorrow’s edge…
A sequel of sorts to the author’s debut collection, Clarion Hope takes the spark of courage held out
- Author: Luehmann, Laurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987451601
- Language: English
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Storms of the Inland Sea: Poems of Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregiving
$18.95 Add to cartPoets Margaret Stawowy and Jim Cokas both experienced a personal metamorphosis while caring for a parent with dementia. While answering a higher calling to care for someone with grace, forbearance, an… [more below]
- Author: Stawowy, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1956056408
- Language: English
