Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

Here I have a small collection of poems that deal with love, heartbreak, happiness, sadness and everything in between.

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.

From elegies to rubáiyáts and all else in between, A collection quite unlike anything you have seen.

The Composition of a Woman - A Book of Poetry is Jillian Morris debut book. This collection of poems is meant inspire women who have endured the struggles of life: mental illness, drug addiction, domestic violence, death, incarceration, and divorce. She...

Sweet and Bruised is a collection of poems about a girl growing up with many struggles. The love that she lost in past relationships and growing up with depression and ADHD. She built a wall between lies and truth, instead of admitting the true feelings...

A collection of Marcel Wormsley's most intimate, touching verse, and featuring a whole new series of original artwork and poetic arrangements, In Search of Moonlit Crevices is sure to provoke the poetically initiated and uninitiated alike.Marcel...

Airplane Graveyard retraces the path that brought us here, and questions the way forward. These poems work through the redefining of masculinity in our living era. What can we keep? What should we change? How can we be sure? These questions are...

THE MONTHLY POETRY COLLECTION BY S. H. MIAH February 2024 features brand-new poems, including the Rescue poetry short story, reflections on Islam, and inspiration for the future. A monthly collection of inspiring poems from S. H. Miah, released on or...

A collection of the author's poems and cartoons. A book about being sad, but learning and feeling hope and taking action, then acting sad and learning and hoping and acting, but being sad and learning, feeling hope and taking action.

"Just before the trumpet explodesTongues will loosen up the knots of dark secretsTo steal God's thunderAs they stole his fruit salad in the Garden of Eaten...""Among my status conscious folk killing is laughably hierarchicalDeath itself has pomp and...

This book breaks down the different stages of trauma into a series of poems that will resonate with readers.The Phoenix & Her Orchids explores the themes of grief, abuse, love, and healing and combines them all together into one piece. Each chapter...

Introducing "Obscured Realms: Haikus on Religion, Death, Suicide, Murder, Sorrow, and Redemption" by the talented wordsmith Valeria Valentina. This captivating collection takes readers on a journey through the intricate landscapes of human emotions,...

«Aux quatre vents de l’avenir possible» réunit les recueils publiés par ROBERT DICKSON (1944-2007), poète humaniste, traducteur zélé, scénariste, comédien, professeur...

Like “sunlight stroking the birds’ throats so it comes out as song,” Ann Fisher-Wirth’s graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentiveness presses against our...

Peter Schireson’s The Salt is a chapbook of 21 poems which touch on a wide range of subjects, including romantic love, the nature of the self, aging, and loss.Self-Portrait with TreeI want to have you,I murmurto the photograph in an airportof a...

From the President of the Horror Writers AssociationSuiPsalms is the follow up to Lawson's first, acclaimed poetry collection, THE TROUBLESOME AMPUTEE. Exploring the subject of suicide from all angles, this collection challenges pre-conceived notions and...

A queer interactive sonnet about picking through the fragments when love goes sour, Ward invites you to forge a path through an array of surreal and nightmarish scenarios, and maybe...just maybe...find out what really happened. Or not. Try Again...

Poetry. "In Kyle McCord's new book Gabriel empathizes, the Devil sympathizes, and an exhausted God watches a televangelist. Moving, imaginative and full of surprising turns, McCord's poems are alive with both the world and the dead who 'have no word for...

She's a woman in the wake of self-destruction, but perhaps redemption is right around the corner - immerse yourself in the poetic prose of the angel.In The Angel's Addendum, the author behind The Devil's Thesaurus, Samuel Faulk, collaborates with poetess...

Within these pages is a collection of poems facing the haunting words of separation. The realities of forming attachments with another person, and how harrowing it can be to learn the truth of the bond you've shared.In this collection, Galloway takes you...

Long Shadow Days: Grief Walking is a collection of poems and essays by internationally recognized performing artist, Rick Wamer.Rick's work is embedded with metaphor, and he has, since his earliest memories, been uplifted and nurtured by nature...

Grasp This Salt is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore what it means to be a mother and the complexities of trying to understand our own mother’s experience of mothering us, while following the life and trial of Susan Smith, convicted in...

A bittersweet and peculiar exploration of love, loss, and pop culture set on the fringe of Appalachia, Where We Let Go illuminates the beauty of grief even as it wallows around in the heaviness of love. This is a bold, visceral portrait of the landscape...

Lee Michael Altman’s book of poems is a philosophical meditation on life, its vicissitudes and unanswerable questions. He complements his writing with his own artwork that has an existential-humanistic influence originating in Bay Area figurative...

Love Is Calling You to ReunionIntensely bright-you can hardly look at the pure white radiance spilling into your room. A figure appears, holding out a welcoming hand, inviting you to step into the Light.Will you accept the invitation? Will you reach out...

...More Tender Verses is a soul baring compilation of poetry presented in lyrical form by the author. Each chapter reveals a wealth of experience and insight from the poet's personal observations...from Love to Nature.A tapestry of topics unfold...

feel. forgive. forget is a poetry collection that covers abuse, love, and heartbreak. Divided into three parts, this poetry collection talks about dealing with childhood and having the strength to rise from the ashes to love again only to be hurt again...

This book is dedicated to every kid told who they were, before discovering on their own. It's for the teachers and mentors praying their students won't fall into the traps the world has set for them. These poems are for liberation, and those who strive...

The 'Flower Waiting to Bloom' presents the overall theme of spring. It is written in the sense of a letter to the reader from their present self. You are the flower that is planted in Spring who never grows, watching as each seasons begins and ends. Its...

The Weight of ExistenceIn the depths of our minds, where shadows linger, and whispers echo, lies a journey seldom spoken of but profoundly felt. "The Weight of Existence" by Joel Hawksley invites you into a world where emotions are raw, and struggles are...

Unveiling Hidden Love Stories: A Journey Through Dreams and Realities. Unearth the Power of Love, Stir Emotions, and Immerse in a Sea of Sentiments. A Book for Those Seeking Love's True Identity.Delve into the pages of The Tears of 700 Souls, an...

In the wake of loss, what does reality look and feel like? When grief is overwhelming and who you love has passed, is there a way to live in the present with a grateful heart?When Stevie Dahms lost her husband Paul to Stage 4 Metastatic RCC, the world...

Danita Dodson writes with emotive transparency about loss, the passing of generations, and the love of a father whose memory becomes a source of light after his death. Between Gone and Everlasting pans the perimeters of mourning with a phenomenal scope:...

In this collection, rhymed and unrhymed verses capture the nebulous double thread that connects our inner consciousness and our outer reality. The poet reflects on how one's core spiritual nature intersects with the physical landscape. She sees the...

The role of pets in humanity has evolved over thousands of years. This Poetry book written by A.R.C is an example about how animals we lose to sickness or tragedy. We still have to mourn and grieve just as we do with other humans. Losing a pet, or losing...

A collection of poetry written by Ember Gray. While going through a difficult time with multiple stressors, the author found solace in writing. She was able to better express the complicated emotions she had been dealing with. This collection of poems...

These poems share the romance the author has with words and her habit of uplifting the local, the extra-rdinary. In so doing it offers a validation of the poem as personal history, and therefore history. The words themselves are offered as the...

How to Make an American Mass Shooter interrogates the ways in which mass shooters in the U.S. are the product of a deeply and historically nationalistic, xenophobic and racist society that uses the right to bear arms as means of violently enforcing these...

Robert Gibbons' poetic seam runs from Black Mountain and the Beats, touching plateaus of elegy and ecstasy, coal and black vinyl jazz, war and supermarkets, basements of psyche and ragged peaks. It's as if this New Englander sees the territory of the...

Dearest Summary, Enclosed are pieces of my brain,During a time in which didn’t seem real,A time that that changed everything,A time when there was a before than an after, Deep Fried French Toast tastes differently, Because the tears stuck inside my...

this is how you live is the long-awaited followup to award-winning poet Rachel Toalson’s debut poetry book, this is how you know. Delving into the depths and mystery of mental illness, Rachel examines what it means to wrestle with depression, daily...

"Filip Marinovich is one of my favorite living poets! He has lived his poems for many years now and we can trust he means it when he says, 'the tree's boyfriend is me / trim the pubes / and get ready for the muse.' Dendrophiliacs have a...

As a young wife and mother of two small children, Sarah Noble underwent two back surgeries in five years, recovered from PPD, wrestled with insomnia, and recovered from concussions. She wrote, painted, planted and did whatever she could to seek...

You are The Girl, and The Girl is a Badass.From the opening lines, it’s clear The Girl at the center of these poems is damaged—which is another way to say she’s a survivor. If the Girl Never...

As Fady Joudah states in his praise for Stacy R. Nigliazzo, “[The] many arresting poems in Sky the Oar row us through many life and death narratives, through the medical gaze: American in their specificity, universal in their compassion...

Praise for A House, Undone"In T. Clear's exquisite debut collection, A House, Undone, we consider what home is. From 'a house of scant beginnings...raveling sweaters/and unpainted stairwells' to the bodies we inhabit to 'roaming the frozen fields...small...

This poetry book consists of 9 chapters and 48 poems of various topics that will take the reader to a journey of love, devotion, sacrifice, history, dedication, martyrdom and more. The poems can be used for different Baha'i occasions giving an artistic...