Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
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The Trouble with Being a Childless Only Child
$21.95 Add to cartWritten 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
- Author: Meyer, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: February 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1960329286
- Language: English
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She Calls the Moon by Its Name: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartShe 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
- Author: DuPont, Lonnie Hull
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: March 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1594981019
- Language: English
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Being, There: Poems and Translation
$18.00 Add to cart“…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.
- Author: Whited, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1956368779
- Language: English
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Sorry I Haven’t Texted You Back
$14.99 Add to cartSorry 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- Author: Cook, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1524860522
- Language: English
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Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life
$11.99 Add to cartIn 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
- Author: Land, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868929625
- Language: English
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To Drink Coffee with a Ghost
$16.99 Read more“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
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Smoking the Bible
$17.00 Add to cartAn 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
- Author: Abani, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596286
- Language: English
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Some Things I Still Can’t Tell You: Poems
$14.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From Misha Collins, actor, longtime poet, and activist, whose massive online following calls itself his “Army For Good,” comes his debut poetry collection, Some Things I Sti… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Misha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1524870544
- Language: English
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Skeletons
$18.00 Read moreWitty and glam, Skeletons is a prismatic collection which shrugs off even the most disillusioned nihilist with humor and intimacy.
Existentialism takes on a glamorous flair in Deborah Landau’s dazzlin
- Author: Landau, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1556596650
- Language: English
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Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds
$14.99 Add to cartBeyond Thoughts is a poetry collection that explores the root cause of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, negative thinking, and emotional suffering to help you heal.
This book will take you on a beaut
- Series: Beyond Suffering
- Author: Nguyen, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986406534
- Language: English
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Death Prefers the Minor Keys
$17.00 Add to cartIn his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence r… [more below]
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Dougherty, Sean Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1960145061
- Language: English
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Consider the Gravity
$8.99 Add to cartLinda Enders has given us a collection of poems for the trying times we live in. While these poems address issues such as climate change, migrants seeking new homes and lives, the losses and grief of … [more below]
- Author: Enders, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988563129
- Language: English
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Seven Year Silence
$14.00 Add to cartSeven Year Silence follows the heart-wrenching journey of the confusion, disillusionment, and grief that define the ending of a marriage. Through her poetry, Taya Sanderson Kesslau explores what it lo
- Author: Sanderson Kesslau, Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988953203
- Language: English
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The Goodbye World Poem
$17.95 Add to cartWhile Turner (author of Here, Bullet) grieves the loss of his wife to cancer, The Goodbye World Poem is a series of poetic meditations that sit quietly in the silent “afterward” of someone’s death. Lo… [more below]
- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944549
- Language: English
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Many Small Hungerings: Poetry
$16.99 Read moreAn explosive and elevated exploration on love, longing, and loss, Many Small Hungerings is a timely and necessary collection of poetry from writer William Bortz.
Many Small Hungerings is the newest co- Author: Bortz, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1524879797
- Language: English
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The Longest Night: A collection of poetry from a life half lived
$16.00 Add to cartHeartbreak and grief touch every soul at least once in a lifetime and Ranata Suzuki translates those raw emotions into words. The Longest Night combines strikingly poignant quotations, powerfully emot
- Author: Suzuki, Ranata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0646987402
- Language: English
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Even In The Grief: Poems on Finding Hope in Ambiguous Loss
$10.99 Add to cartEven In The Grief is a poetry collection on finding hope while grieving ambiguous loss. Carter’s poems explore the tension of love and loss, strength and pain, despair and hope. The book is divided in
- Author: Carter, Sarah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218278359
- Language: English
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The Music Was Just Getting Good
$16.99 Read more- Author: Cook, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1524886203
- Language: English
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The Wild Delight of Wild Things
$17.95 Read moreAlthough 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- Author: Turner, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1949944530
- Language: English
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Fierce Elegy
$16.95 Add to cartPeter 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0819500682
- Language: English
