Death/ Grief/ Loss
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Your Dazzling Death: Poems
$24.00 Add to cartWritten in the devastating aftermath of a partner’s suicide, this unprecedented collection is a restorative memorial act, an exploration of queer time, and a powerful expression of nonbinary and trans… [more below]
- Series: Cass Donish and Kelly Caldwell Books
- Author: Donish, Cass
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 059353803X
- Language: English
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A Year & Other Poems
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning.
Jos Charles’s poems communicate with one ano- Author: Charles, Jos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1639550224
- Language: English
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Mitochondrial Night
$16.95 Add to cartTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide, Lee explores familial and national legacies, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems, the trait of an ancestor
- Author: Lee, Ed Bok
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895324
- 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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The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
$19.99 Add to cartFormer poet laureate Donald Hall selects his essential work from a moving and brilliant life in poetry.
“When I was twelve I wrote my first poem, and by fourteen I decided that’s what I’d do my wh
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1328745600
- Language: English
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God Lifted Me
$25.00 Add to cart“God Lifted Me” is written to give my Heavenly Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus Christ all the glory, honor, praise, and gratitude my soul can muster. The poems reflect personal healing, affirmation
- Author: Hanks, Mary Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218231866
- 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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Whoever Drowned Here
$21.00 Add to cartWith a magician’s deft touch, Sessner raises the curtain on the strange, spectral life of inanimate objects and the sorrows and misadventures of humans who live, lonely, among them.
- Author: Sessner, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1636281389
- Language: English
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Separation Anxiety
$16.95 Add to cartA complex and entangled text that explores inherited trauma, the presence of ghosts, interspecies communication, the dream world, grief, and human/animal separation.
Weaving wisdom from her shamanic p
- Author: Lee, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1955904081
- Language: English
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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartYour Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin’s murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative o… [more below]
- Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry
- Author: Safi, Lubna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831396
- Language: English
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Hoarders
$18.00 Read moreA Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021
In Hoarders, Kate Durbin deftly traces the associations
An NPR Best Book of 2021
An Electric Literature Best Poetry Book of 2021
A Dennis Cooper Best Book of 2021- Author: Durbin, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1950268136
- Language: English
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The Voice of Sheila Chandra
$17.95 Read moreTitled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only… [more below]
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 194857912X
- Language: English
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Indelible Miraculous
$18.49 Add to cartThis collected edition commemorates the 10th anniversary of Julia Darling’s death, and includes a substantial selection of unpublished work. Jackie Kay writes: “The poems are funny, irreverent, moving… [more below]
- Author: Darling, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 191034530X
- Language: English
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I Know Your Kind: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartSelected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Lim, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.
In West Virginia,
- Author: Brewer, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1571314954
- Language: English
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The Lice
$15.00 Read moreThis Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the most ground-breaking books in American poetry. When first published in 1967, W.S. Merwin’s The Lice was ground-breaking. Its visionary urgency d
- Author: Merwin, W. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1556594984
- Language: English
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Shape Shifter: A Minidoka Concentration Camp Legacy
$18.00 Add to cartLawrence Matsuda’s collection of poems in Shape Shifter: A Minidoka Concentration Camp Legacy express the reverberating trauma of his family’s imprisonment in the Minidoka Concentration Camp during WW
- Author: Matsuda, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0999364685
- 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
