Death/ Grief/ Loss

  • The Wild Delight of Wild Things

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    Although grief is at the forefront of these poems, The Wild Delight of Wild Things is a simple love letter to Turner’s late wife, poet Ilyse Kusnetz (1966-2016).

    The poems are also a love letter to ou

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    • Author: Turner, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 100
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 1949944530
    • Language: English
  • Blue Hour

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    Blue Hour is an elusive book, because it is ever in pursuit of what the German poet Novalis called ‘the [lost] presence beyond appearance.’ The longest poem, ‘On Earth, ‘ is a transcription of mind p

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    • Author: Forche, Carolyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 73
    • Publish Date: December 13 2013
    • ISBN10: 0060099135
    • Language: English
  • The Colossus: And Other Poems

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    With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as “The Beekeeper’s Daughter,” “The Disq… [more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Plath, Sylvia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 19 1998
    • ISBN10: 0375704469
    • Language: English
  • The Shining

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    As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky’s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape.

    Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar … [more below]

    • Author: Lasky, Dorothea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1950268853
    • Language: English
  • Matrix

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    MATRIX is a must-read for those seeking a profoundly moving poetic experience. With its masterful language, evocative imagery, and exploration of the human condition, Bialer’s collection offers solace… [more below]

    • Author: Bialer, Matt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 2, 2023
    • ISBN10: 195519419X
    • Language: English
  • The Ruins of Nostalgia

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    New work from one of the most compelling and transformative writers of the contemporary prose poem

    What is it to feel nostalgia, to be skeptical of it yet cleave intently to the complex truths of feeli

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Stonecipher, Donna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500844
    • Language: English
  • Fierce Elegy

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    Peter 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

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Gizzi, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 72
    • Publish Date: August 08 2023
    • ISBN10: 0819500682
    • Language: English
  • Love, Death, and In Between

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    Love, Death, and In Between tells a beautiful and heartbreaking story about young love that ended far too soon. Married at 23, widowed at 26 just a night before their wedding anniversary. Constantly a

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    • Author: Dearing, Martyna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 94
    • Publish Date: February 14, 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798988989936
    • Language: English
  • Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance

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    An anthology edited by acclaimed poets Kaveh Akbar and Paige Lewis.

    In 1997, Sarabande published Last Call, a poetry anthology that became a formative text on the lived experiences of addiction. Now, m… [more below]

    • Author: Akbar, Kaveh
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: October 24 2023
    • ISBN10: 195604616X
    • Language: English
  • Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht: Including Late and Uncollected Work

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    The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who

    • Author: Hecht, Anthony
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 640
    • Publish Date: November 07, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593319192
    • Language: English
  • Ephemera

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    If every experience lasted forever there would be nothing to immortalize in writing.

    In Sierra DeMulder’s melancholic yet hopeful poetry collection, Ephemera, she writes with the wisdom of someone who … [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Demulder, Sierra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340633
    • Language: English
  • The Ledger of Mistakes

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    A collection of lyric poems, a masterful book, a treatise on the complication of loss

    • Author: Nelson, Kathy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 98
    • Publish Date: August 8, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1947896644
    • Language: English
  • The Way Back Home

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    When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things–your hope, your strength, yourself. One day, in the middle of the darkness, you meet a spirit, washed from the ocean onto the shore. The[more below]

    • Author: Peppernell, Courtney
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: August 23 2022
    • ISBN10: 1524872113
    • Language: English
  • Obit

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    After her mother’s death, Chang wrote deep into grief by composing “obits”-from her mother’s blue dress to language itself.

    • Author: Chang, Victoria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 07, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1556595743
    • Language: English
  • Trace Evidence: Poems

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    In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity

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    • Author: Shanahan, Charif
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 195353466X
    • Language: English
  • A Year of Last Things: Poems

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    From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back

    Following several of his internationally acclai

    • Author: Ondaatje, Michael
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 19, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593801563
    • Language: English
  • Wrong Norma

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    Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, several of the twenty-five startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and The Paris R[more below]

    • Author: Carson, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811230341
    • Language: English
  • Every Word You Cannot Say

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    *May this book find the person it needs to. May they find every word they were looking for.*

    **I know you don’t want to talk sometimes. Sometimes because it hurts and sometimes because you’re just not

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    • Author: Thomas, Iain S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: March 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1449495206
    • Language: English
  • Root Fractures: Poems

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    *One of LitHub‘s Poetry Books to Read in 2024*
    *One of The Millions‘s Must Read Poetry Books of Winter 2024*

    National Book Award finalist Diana Khoi Nguyen’s second poetry collection, a haunting of a

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    • Author: Nguyen, Diana Khoi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: January 30, 2024
    • ISBN10: 1668031302
    • Language: English
  • Love, Remember: 40 Poems of Loss, Lament and Hope

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    The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and … [more below]

    • Author: Guite, Malcolm
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 30, 2017
    • ISBN10: 1786220016
    • Language: English
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