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c1998
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You might expect the fact of dying-the dying of a beloved wife and fellow poet-to make for a bleak and lonely tale. But Donald Hall's poignant and courageous poetry, facing that dread fact, involves us all: the magnificent, humorous, and gifted woman, Jane Kenyon, who suffered and died, the doctors and nurses who tried but failed to save her, the neighbors, friends, and relatives who grieved for her, the husband who sat by her while she lived and...
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[2022]
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Amidst an incredible understanding of how it feels to lose the ones we love the most, Donna's writing gives a glimpse of light that can be found within the darkest moments. This collection of grief poetry will bring comfort but also peace, acceptance, and the very important reminder that you are never alone. A must for anyone who has lost someone. Those cast adrift in the lonely sea of grief will find something on every page to cling to, when that...
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2022.
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The Surrender Theory begins deep within the thick of heartbreak, gets lost in the vibrancy of new love, and then eventually rediscovers itself in a place of peace and closure. It's about learning to grow alongside grief. About taking the hand of your younger self and forgiving them. Through pages of truisms and poems, this debut collection from Caitlin Conlon explores the boundaries of our most poignant and human emotions. Both deeply personal and...
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2020.
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"Healing Words' is an empowering poetry book about love, heartbreak, depression, anxiety, loneliness, healing, hope, self-love, inner strength, personal transformation, and happiness. Written for all of you who have wounds in your hearts, this uplifting poetry book is here to help you. To help you learn how to love yourself. To help you heal your heart's wounds. To help you let go of your past and fears. To help you defeat your depression and overcome...
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2018.
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"Memories saturate my heart and the story of you spills from my eyes."
Grace's poignant words have been used in countless Eulogies, Funeral Prayers and Condolences for grieving families.
Speaking In Tears is a beautiful book of poetry, thoughtfully arranged with poetry, and pictures to express an array of emotions including: Love and Loss; Happiness and Heartbreak; and Pain and Sorrow.
Speaking In Tears takes the reader on a journey from: Grief and...
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2020.
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As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate...
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2024.
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"Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes painting was and the fifth one knew. I walked into the room and saw it right away. From afar, it was a large white square. With My Back to the World engages with the paintings and writings of Agnes Martin, the celebrated abstract artist, in ways that open up new modes of expression, expanding the scope of what art, poetry, and the human...
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2023.
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"With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually stark, a gathering of gripping verses that unmasks a dialogue of tragic truths--the stories of lives taken unjustly and too soon. Bold and deeply affecting, Dark Testament is a remarkable reckoning with...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, whose poem Explaining My Depression to My Mother has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.
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2017.
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"Hum of Our Blood peels back time to the dawning days of the AIDS pandemic when the world seemed to be standing at the edge of a foreboding precipice. In an exploration that is both personal and universal, Garner's poems expose the best and worst of humanity at times of peril. With language that cuts straight to the nature of grief as the author watches her beloved son's body dying, Hum of Our Blood also stands as a love song to those, then or now,...