Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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Some of the Things I’ve Seen
$14.95 Read moreIn her newest collection, Sara Berkeley follows a number of sightlines: watching the landscape from the window of a plane, contemplating the effects of climate change, witnessing human vulnerability a… [more below]
- Author: Berkeley, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1943667055
- Language: English
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Domestic Bodies
$15.00 Add to cartDomestic Bodies delves into the physicality of mundane and life-altering moments as told by a narrator disabled from birth. This collection deals with themes of cancer, family, death, disability, and
- Author: Jackson, Jennifer Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118560
- Language: English
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My Dad’s Alzheimer’s: A Tribute
$10.95 Add to cartK. H. Tillquist’s beautifully written poem describes the gradual and inescapable loss of her father, Dale C. Hart, to Alzheimer’s. Photographs from his childhood, World War II, and beyond document the
- Author: Tillquist, K. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218199371
- Language: English
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100 Poems to Break Your Heart
$28.00 Read more100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0544931882
- Language: English
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Relative Sanity: Poems
$14.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997679
- Language: English
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Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty
$11.95 Read moreWho has not suffered grief? In Mourning Songs, the brilliant poet and editor Grace Schulman has gathered together the most moving poems about sorrow by the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Wi… [more below]
- Author: Schulman, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228665
- Language: English
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The After: Poems that explore the emotional experiences of life after love and loss.
$12.99 Add to cart“The After” is a collection of poems that explore the emotional landscape after love and loss. The selection of these poems reflect the navigation through life after it is forever altered. Love is why
- Author: Gerard, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 26 2022
- ISBN10: 9798987516706
- Language: English
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I Am the Dead, Who, You Take Care of Me
$16.00 Read moreWith tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead.
Following … [more below]
- Author: McCann, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268888
- Language: English
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Tranquility Teetering on Tears: Tears of Sorrow Tears of Joy An Incident in Faith, Hope, and Love
$17.95 Add to cartTranquility Teetering on Tears is an insightful observation of a nontraditional society and written by a nontraditional student formed and scripted in a traditional Lutheran University that is current
- Author: Pence Aka Gpb, Robert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1662466978
- Language: English
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Searching for Home
$17.00 Add to cartSearching for Home, Pack’s splendid twenty-second collection of poems, written largely during his last year of life, centers on the search for meaning. At its heart are sequences of poems about three
- Author: Pack, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821473
- Language: English
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Fjords Vol.2
$16.00 Read more“The thing about killing is, like everything else, it feels as bright as love for just a flash.” The second volume in Zachary Schomburg’s Fjords series of evocative prose poetry, this is a collection … [more below]
- Author: Schomburg, Zachary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1939568374
- Language: English
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The Lonely Funeral: Poets at the Gravesides of the Forgotten
$15.99 Add to cartEvery year, people living in our towns and cities – the homeless, suicides, old people living alone – are found dead. Their funerals are held without relatives or friends. In Amsterdam in 2002, F Star
- Author: Starik, F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1910345520
- Language: English
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Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod
$17.00 Read moreWritten during the trial for a close friend’s murder, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod exposes that the whimsical, horrible, and absurd all sit together. In this ambitious fourth collection, Tr
- Author: Brimhall, Traci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: March 31, 2020
- ISBN10: 1556595808
- Language: English
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Incantations: poems
$18.95 Add to cartOut of grief, upheaval, derision, disappointment, and change of all kinds-from the intimate to the mythic-Incantations both admonishes and rails. Darnell Arnoult’s evocative collection unleashes frust… [more below]
- Author: Arnoult, Darnell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1956440771
- Language: English
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General Release from the Beginning of the World
$16.99 Add to cartFree Verse Editions. Series Editor: Jon Thompson.
In GENERAL RELEASE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD, Donna Spruijt-Metz attempts to reconcile the death of the father, the lies of the mother, a hidden
- Author: Spruijt-Metz, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1643173510
- Language: English
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Vanishing Below the Waist
$11.50 Add to cartWinner of the Heartland Review Chapbook contest, finalist in the Wolfson Press Chapbook Competition & Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Contest, semi-finalist for Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Chapbook Contest,
- Author: White, Ellie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: February 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118862
- Language: English
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When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
$19.99 Add to cartA luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry.
- Author: Markus, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0814348505
- Language: English
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Hackable Animal
$18.00 Add to cartTraveling from the Peruvian Amazon to Beijing, from the Siberian tundra to Oaxacan villages, Ian Ramsey’s Hackable Animal explores the metaphysical dimensions of being human amongst the disruptions of
- Author: Ramsey, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368388
- Language: English
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A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
$35.00 Add to cartCopper 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- Author: Wiegers, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596707
- Language: English
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Around the Forever Bend: Remembrances of Wondering What Lies Beyond Death
$15.95 Add to cartWe are the only beings on earth who intrinsically wonder about our own end. But is there a way to elicit more elegant, gentle questions? Maybe something finer can be imparted, a way to bring the inevi… [more below]
- Author: Drew, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368205
- Language: English
