Death/ Grief/ Loss
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Mother Water Ash: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartMother Water Ash, a wrenching new collection of poems by Nicole Cooley, explores the personal grief of a mother’s sudden death alongside the environmental crises of the storms, fires, and floods that… [more below]
- Author: Cooley, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: July 25 2024
- ISBN10: 080718246X
- Language: English
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Something Close to God
$15.00 Add to cart“Something Close to God” explores the themes of redemption, identity, and overcoming adversity in the face of cisheteropatriarchal expectations. This collection of poems is unafraid to scream at God a
- Author: del Carmen Ruiz, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118781
- Language: English
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Green Island
$21.95 Add to cartPoems that enlarge our sense of what beauty and awe can be.
The poems in Green Island delve into the relationship between place and imagination, examining the ways in which the physical places the sp- Author: Countryman, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 02 2024
- ISBN10: 196120908X
- Language: English
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Table with Burning Candle
$21.95 Add to cartWith a dual sense of convulsion and care, Table with Burning Candle tackles a subject that is every parent’s worst nightmare-the death of a child. Grieving the loss of her son to opioid addiction and
- Author: Paul, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329383
- Language: English
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first love//first death: poetry from a suicide loss survivor
$12.99 Add to cartfirst love//first death is a grief centered poetry collection centered around author Mara Luar losing their first love to teen suicide. In their debut book, Mara Luar illuminates the complexities of b
- Author: Luar, Mara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 25 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218507640
- Language: English
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Love Prodigal
$17.00 Add to cartAmidst cycles of heartbreak, trauma, and chronic pain, Love Prodigal finds strength in the natural world, motherhood, desire, and new love.
Fiercely self-aware and “utterly present tense,” Traci Brimh… [more below]
- Author: Brimhall, Traci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1556597029
- Language: English
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Things I Think About and Other Works: A Healing Through Creative Expression
$15.99 Add to cartThe Things I Think About and Other Stories captures thoughts and stories shaped by years of challenges, failures, violence, wins and moments of clarity. Through this work, she hopes to sharpen your ir
- Author: Ramelle, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330459353
- Language: English
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Good Monster
$17.00 Read moreWith an equal dose of fatalism and dark wit, Antigua captures the body’s capacity to cage and cradle sadness.
Diannely Antigua’s Good Monster grapples with the body as a site of chronic pain and traum
- Author: Antigua, Diannely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596901
- Language: English
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The Pros and Cons of Dying
$12.00 Add to cartThe Pros and Cons of Dying explores fears, beauty, intricacies, reflections, and absurdities of the inevitable. Max Bidasha weaves humor, whimsy, thoughtfulness, and love through what most would consi
- Author: Bidasha, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218440442
- Language: English
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The Invention of the Darling: Poems
$26.99 Add to cart“The poet of rapture and tenderness” (Major Jackson, American Poets), Li-Young Lee speaks these poems with the intimacy and primacy of a whisper, as if from a lover to a beloved, or a believer to God.
- Author: Lee, Li-Young
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0393867196
- Language: English
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When I Am Gone: Poems for times of loss and grief
$11.99 Add to cartA collection of poems to help ride the waves of grief and provide comfort in the wake of loss.
Becky’s words have been read as part of funerals, eulogies and memorials all around the world, providing c
- Author: Hemsley, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: February 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1915834996
- Language: English
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Dressing the Bear
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Louise Bogan Award, Susan L. Leary’s Dressing the Bear is a collection of poems composed in the wake of her brother’s passing that explores the themes of love, loss, grief, longing,
- Author: Leary, Susan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1949487237
- Language: English
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Death Styles
$17.95 Add to cartA record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss.
In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link betw… [more below]
- Author: McSweeney, Joyelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622307
- Language: English
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Of Lost Things
$12.00 Add to cartIn this poignant and probing debut, Dani De Luca invites the reader to sit long with the realities of birth, death and the million heartbreaks between. With tenderness borne of a heart that knows, De
- Author: de Luca, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118811
- Language: English
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Two Minds: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartDoes loss define us, or do we define loss? Tracing the duality of grief as it reverberates through a family, Callie Siskel wrestles with questions of identity and inheritance in precise, lucid poetry.
- Author: Siskel, Callie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324073675
- Language: English
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[…]: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize
A Reading the West Book Award Finalist
From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and esse… [more below]
- Author: Joudah, Fady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 163955128X
- Language: English
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Enter: Poems
$17.00 Read moreIn Enter, poet Jim Moore navigates the public spaces of his neighborhood–parks, boardwalks, piazzas, even parking garages–and encounters people negotiating mortality in the pandemic age just as he i
- Author: Moore, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453398
- Language: English
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Night Train to Memphis
$18.00 Add to cartTo see inside, was Tillinghast’s succinct response to the question, Why do you write? This short answer holds the key to his unstinting vitality, in poetry: curiosity, observation, and reflection.
Nigh… [more below]
- Author: Tillinghast, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1945680792
- Language: English
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About Time: Poems
$19.95 Add to cartDAVID DUCHOVNY’S SEVENTH PUBLISHED–AND FIRST POETIC–WORK covers a range of intimate themes and topics, including love, the loss of love, parenting, Duchovny’s own parents (in particular his father,
- Author: Duchovny, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 163614263X
- Language: English
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The Deletions
$18.00 Add to cartSarah Green’s The Deletions is a spiritual and psychological reckoning with ecological grief, infertility grief, and the loss of a marriage. These poems live at the intersection of ode and elegy, simu… [more below]
- Series: Akron Poetry
- Author: Green, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 55
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 162922300X
- Language: English
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