Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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Leaked Footages
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
The poems in Leaked Footages carry urgent subjects, ranging from death to disappearance to grief to memory. Not only do the poems fulfill th- Series: African Poetry Book
- Author: Sadiq, Abu Bakr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496240138
- Language: English
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New and Collected Hell: A Poem
$28.00 Add to cartShane McCrae, “peer to the peerless” (New York Journal of Books), takes up and turns on its head the mantle of Dante in this contemporary vision of Hell.
Of death the muse is death the muse of Hell
Is- Author: McCrae, Shane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0374615497
- Language: English
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Good Grief
$21.99 Add to cart“Brianna Pastor is by far one of my favorite new writers. Good Grief is a powerful testament that shows how hard the past can be and that overcoming it is possible. If you want to feel seen and deeply
- Author: Pastor, Brianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0063359650
- Language: English
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A House Called Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Poetry from Copper Canyon Press
$25.00 Read moreCopper 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596626
- Language: English
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The Dead Peasant’s Handbook
$17.95 Add to cartFollowing the loose series of Turner’s other recent 2023 publications, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, this third book in this “collection” serves as a poetic guide to help… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944557
- Language: English
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The Holy & Broken Bliss
$24.95 Add to cartHow can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How can we respond to the double plague of a fierce pandemic and a divided society? The keenly observant and urge
- Author: Ostriker, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1949944670
- Language: English
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The Widow’s Crayon Box: Poems
$26.99 Add to cartAfter her husband’s death, Molly Peacock realized she was not living the received idea of a widow’s mauve existence but instead was experiencing life in all colors. These gorgeous poems–joyful, furio
- Author: Peacock, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079436
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Rain
$19.00 Add to cartThe poems in Lana Hechtman Ayers’ The Autobiography of Rain explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty. It is in the most stricken
- Author: Ayers, Lana Hechtman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1594981388
- Language: English
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Rain to Root: poems of meeting grief and grace
$15.99 Add to cartIn this debut collection of poems, Kim Birdsong explores the often fierce and disorienting landscape of grief. In the year following the death of her son, Kim turned toward writing to try to cope with
- Author: Birdsong, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218505431
- Language: English
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i have wrestled with the way clouds weep
$12.00 Add to cart“This is my garden among rubble,” writes Judy Nahum in this intricate and beautiful collection. And indeed, the world conjured between these pages is in a constant state of transformation. Sea shells … [more below]
- Author: Nahum, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118889
- Language: English
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After Image
$17.00 Add to cartWoven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.
A house, an orchard, “a shudder of blossoms.” A fountain, a bed, a sudden spr… [more below]
- Author: George, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596952
- Language: English
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About Time
$18.00 Add to cartNeil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent gl… [more below]
- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Hilborn, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1638342024
- Language: English
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Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“A lyrical, radiant memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Ann Wroe, obituaries editor for The Economist, reflects on the art and impossibility of capturing life on the page. Through her experiences
- Author: Wroe, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1400347939
- Language: English
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It Must Be a Misunderstanding
$16.95 Read moreIt Must Be a Misunderstanding is the acclaimed Mexican poet Coral Bracho’s most personal and emotive collection to date, dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer’s. Remarkably,… [more below]
- Author: Bracho, Coral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231399
- Language: English
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The Final Voicemails: Poems
$22.00 Read more“Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go.” From Max Ritvo–selected and edited by Louise Gl?k–comes a final collection of poems fully insc
- Author: Ritvo, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 157131511X
- Language: English
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Twice Alive
$16.95 Read moreIn the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that… [more below]
- Author: Gander, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0811230295
- Language: English
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Path of Totality: Poems
$16.95 Read moreExploring the sudden loss of her child, the hope that precedes this crisis, and the suffering that follows, this collection of poetry renders a shattering experience with candor and immediacy.
This co
- Author: Pollari, Niina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 159376703X
- Language: English
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Iggy Horse
$18.00 Read moreNew collection from Michael Earl Craig, farrier and former poet laureate of Montana.
In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and u
- Author: Craig, Michael Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1950268756
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$27.00 Read morePeter 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
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Gizzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500674
- Language: English
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Godhouse
$22.95 Add to cartPoems that consider the human body as a meeting place of the infinite and the mortal.
Starting with the idea that the human experience is the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes the notio- Author: Kocher, Ruth Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1632431165
- Language: English
