Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

  • Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George

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    ‘Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.’ – Olivia Harrison

    Olivia Harrison pres

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    • Author: Harrison, Olivia
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: June 21 2022
    • ISBN10: 1905662734
    • Language: English
  • Dandelion

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    New York Times bestselling author Gabbie Hanna delivers everything from curious musings to gut-wrenching confessionals in her long-awaited sophomore collection of illustrated poetry.This edition inclu… [more below]

    • Author: Hanna, Gabbie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 13 2020
    • ISBN10: 1982153385
    • Language: English
  • Weddings & Funerals

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    Taken from a whirlwind life filled with soaring highs and crushing lows, Weddings & Funerals spans over a decade of poetry. Inside you’ll find honest examinations of mental health, celebrations of lif

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    • Author: Orchard, Samantha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 54
    • Publish Date: July 11 2023
    • ISBN10: 1088202438
    • Language: English
  • Exits: Selected Poems

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    “Pollock’s poetry is brilliant”

    – Kristiana Reed, editor-in-chief, Free Verse Revolution

    Stephen C. Pollock’s poetry collection Exits explores the beauty and frailty of life, the theme of mortality, an

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    • Author: Pollock, Stephen C.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 54
    • Publish Date: June 12 2023
    • ISBN10: 1957638680
    • Language: English
  • Little Astronaut

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    A poetry collection about the beautiful and disorienting period of new motherhood, exploring an experience both otherworldly and very, very human.

    little astronaut is a fully revised and updated edit

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    • Author: Stein, J. Hope
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1524872202
    • Language: English
  • With My Back to the World: Poems

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    A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection Obit.

    Yesterday I slung my depre

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    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 02 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374611130
    • Language: English
  • Survived By

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    These lines helped me survive. Do what you need with them to survive too. Draw on these pages, or tear them out. Carry a poem in your pocket, or give it to someone else. Cross out my words and write y

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    • Author: Wells, Anne Marie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 194
    • Publish Date: April 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1959860119
    • Language: English
  • The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound

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    When the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century lite

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    • Author: Eliot, T. S.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1324093005
    • Language: English
  • What the Moon Gave Her

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    It is never too late to become all that you envision. Your birth happens more than once so sink into each feeling of uncertainty and ride with the waves.

    From loneliness, fear, and change comes a brea

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    • Author: Steyn, Christi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1524873829
    • Language: English
  • Be with

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    Drawing from his experience as a translator, Forrest Gander includes in the first, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with … [more below]

    • Author: Gander, Forrest
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 28 2018
    • ISBN10: 0811226050
    • Language: English
  • The Hate Poems

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    John Tottenham writes poetry. But don’t hold that against him. It’s the kind of poetry that is accessible to people who don’t read poetry, i.e. everybody. This new collection, ‘The Hate Poems’, presen… [more below]

    • Author: Tottenham, John
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 15 2018
    • ISBN10: 1878923293
    • Language: English
  • Because . . .

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    A poem is a place to feel and interpret your emotions. Because… is a journey weaving you through the struggles of vulnerability and sadness, the connection of friendship, the elation of love, the in

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    • Author: Hart, Ames
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: January 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798218349691
    • Language: English
  • Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance: Poems

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    An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.

    In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah has written love poems to the love

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    • Author: Joudah, Fady
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 13 2018
    • ISBN10: 1571315012
    • Language: English
  • The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child

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    Written after the unexpected death of her mother, Michelle Meyer’s The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child takes root in the body, exploring loss and trauma along with the sexual and social dyna

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    • Author: Meyer, Michelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 1960329286
    • Language: English
  • She Calls the Moon by Its Name: Poems

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    She Calls the Moon by Its Name, a powerful and haunting series of poems, follows a nineteenth-century farm woman in spiritual isolation as she finds strength in naming what is alive around her-or even

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    • Author: DuPont, Lonnie Hull
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: March 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 1594981019
    • Language: English
  • Being, There: Poems and Translation

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    “…There’s never a moment when the writing is not totally true to his understanding of the lines, and how every line that follows is trustworthy in its attachment to the elemental truth of the place.

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    • Author: Whited, Gary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956368779
    • Language: English
  • Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back

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    Sorry I haven’t texted you back, (I’ve been so anxious and depressed) I haven’t had time to catch my breath, you know how life gets

    Returning to the form of Stuff I’ve Been Feeling Lately, Sorry I H

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    • Author: Cook, Alicia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: October 06 2020
    • ISBN10: 1524860522
    • Language: English
  • Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life

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    In Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life, A.J. Land reflects upon her work as a hospice social worker, caring for people who are ill and dying. This is the type of daily work that fosters endless introspec

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    • Author: Land, A. J.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 50
    • Publish Date: October 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798868929625
    • Language: English
  • To Drink Coffee with a Ghost

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    “You cannot have a funeral for your mother without also having a funeral for yourself.” This book poses the ever-lingering question: What happens when someone dies before they’re able to redeem themse[more below]

    • Author: Lovelace, Amanda
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: September 17 2019
    • ISBN10: 1449494277
    • Language: English
  • Smoking the Bible

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    An award-winning author of numerous books, Chris Abani moves between his Igbo ancestry and migration to the United States in poems that evoke the holiness of grief through the startling, central pract

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    • Author: Abani, Chris
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 17 2022
    • ISBN10: 1556596286
    • Language: English
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