Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

Poetry is to theology, As rain is to cloud, A foundational essence.These opening lines from the author's poem Protector recall for us the motivation, the purpose and the insights that inspire the new collection of poems in this volume. The poems - like...

“There’s Healing After Hurt” is a true story written from the author's point of view, detailing the raw emotions and breakthroughs she experienced while grieving the loss of her daughter, Jayla. Katrina shares her true unfiltered...

Things I Should Keep to Myself is a collection of short stories and poems, written over the past twenty years, that touch on love, loss, mental illness, and paranormal experiences.   

Moments of ecstatic violation live on, unacknowledged, but making their claim in crippled emotion and an incessant search to master their source. Ahab had his whale, and Ishmael was taken up in the quest. Ishmael was healed by squeezing sperm and thereby...

Patrick Reginald Chalmers (1872-1942) was an Irish writer and banker.. His work covered many different areas, including horse racing, hunting, and field sports. Although he is not often credited with it, Chalmers coined the phrase "Roundabouts and...

The Book:A collection of poetry written during a time of loss. Writing the book helped the author through the grieving process.The Author:Selina has been writing since she was a child but become serious about expressing herself through poetry as a...

A collection of poetry about love loaned, love lost, and love learned - through the lens of another. Captivated in a spinning dance of inspiration and isolation - readers will experience a glimpse of what it feels like to touch love. To seek love, joy,...

In The Universe Will Give You Flores, Darlene Moreno delves into themes of loss, heartbreak, and identity within a rich tapestry of spiritual, cultural, and political contexts. Confronting personal challenges such as the loss of her mother...

When we reach our destination,I BUBBLE with the fumarole Knowing that I have earned a rare sight,Remembering all the barriers that might have kept me away,And thankful that I have endured.  In his debut collection of poetry, Anthony...

Our tiny crafts float between either oar: loss and hope, faith and doubt, choice and fate, memory and longing, galaxy and grain. Here are poems that speak of either one person's story or every person's story.

When is love truly over?Few of us can imagine an oblivion more all-consuming than love - and love lost. We like to believe in divine timing, but what happens when two hearts entwine before Fate is ready? Is this a missed chance? Or a taste of what is yet...

Each epoch of history brings stories of pain, triumph, oppression, freedom, purpose, suffering, grief, and joy. Silent Suffering explores the depths of the human experience through an exploration of the present moment, a time in which postmodern,...

In The Devil in the Door, poet Xavier Pastrano steps away from his more traditional style of writing and sidles into the world of Dark Poetry.Through original poetry and art, Pastrano shines a wavering light on the things writhing in the dark corners of...

About the BookA FREE-FLOWING NARRATIVE IN VERSE AND PROSE THAT MARKED THE DEBUT OF AN ASTONISHING NEW VOICE IN LITERATURE.'Reading Sharmistha Mohanty's Book One, you keep turning the pages, not to follow the story-though there is a story being told...

When state and religion collude to cement masculine power and undermine and control women, it makes sense to look to a spiritual age, before patriarchy even existed, where the Goddess held the power. Here the energy is compassionate, fierce and gentle,...

Diese Neuausgabe von Novalis' „Hymnen an die Nacht" bietet eine einzigartige Möglichkeit, eines der bedeutendsten Werke der deutschen Romantik aus einer neuen Perspektive zu erleben. Die Ausgabe stellt die gedruckte Fassung von 1800 und die...

Suffering crippling losses can leave us feeling lost, abandoned and alone.THIS Somatic Compassionate Grief is a powerful collection of intimate reflections and expressions in an emotionally raw journey of weathering through the excruciating paths of...

"Part trickster, part soulmate, part self-reflection, there is nothing small about Avni Vyas's little god."-Anne Barngrover, author of Brazen Creature"In this dazzling debut of a collection, Avni Vyas asks the important not often considered...

There is an absence at the heart of Katie Prince's debut collection, Tell This to the Universe, and an obsessive search to find what's missing. Like moons around faraway planets, the poems orbit the strange and brutal landscapes of longing, alienation,...

She stepped out of the shadows into the light as the Sun soaked her skin. Her cage, unlatched, her raging mind, undisciplined but her head held high. With each step, she reclaimed her faith, even though her broken heart ached to feel whole again but you...

In Jessamyn Smyth's story collection, The Inugami Mochi, we have known the witch's expansion and joy in her familiar Beloved, and we have known the terrible end. Now, in Gilgamesh Wilderness, the architecture of that great epic becomes a doorway through...

From Cory Kruse, author of the critically acclaimed A Dream of Darkness, comes an incisive collection that will delight, inspire, devastate, and uplift you.Told in spare, accessible entries, Grace in the Dirt is a lyrical memoir that delves into life's...

With Love & Crappiness you will explore the mind of a poet. In his most personal work of his career, FlipSide, writes about love, love lost, the moment his teaching career ended, and the ills of being single and a father. There is also a letter to his...

How does one navigate guilt, grief, and loss? The poems in Ghost-Mother explore how to remember and to honor a mother as she declines due to illness and eventually dies.

The Shomer explores the role of the watchman and guardian in the context of daily routines and significant life events. In Jewish tradition, the Shomer serves in the role of watchman. Among his/her responsibilities, the Shomer is charged with...

Inside a Toronto apartment with a view of Lake Ontario and a hillside covered with trees, seasoned poet David Murray penned his tenth collection of lyrical verse-somehow meeting a lofty goal of writing one hundred poems in thirty days. While waiting for...

Step into the mind of a poet who contemplates the world and its mysteries with equal parts wonder and terror. A debut collection of dark and introspective poetry, perfect for those who revel in the beauty and horror of existence.An introspective,...

Themes of the sea and the emotions, particularly the deeply felt joys and melancholies experienced by men, are a touchstone of this work. Ferdinando Manzo's thoughts are not bound to fluidity; they fly to the greatest heights of exhilaration in poems...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Chuck the bucket list. The greatest adventure in life is not scaling Everest or swimming the English Channel. It is the courageous voyage of exploration into the uncharted ocean of the self. "Who am I?" is the question that begins the journey...

This collection of poems, RIOT OF ROSES, is at once a confrontation, a confession, an embrace. It took me 44 years to love myself with abandon and to trust myself as a writer. I caught glimpses of this deep love throughout my life. I even...

Have you ever heard of the Black Madonna? Have you ever wondered why she is called Black? Our Lady of Guadalupe, for example, is a Black Madonna, and she is famous for the miracles associated with her. My mother once told me about a Black Madonna in...

A short poem that moves you is powerful. A long poem that keeps you is impressive. Poetic thoughts, feelings, and short poems. A collection of Poetry by Teresa James. Who is known for her poetry and art shared throughout social media as Love of a Poet.

Johnson recounts what it means to live after assault and navigate once-safe spaces now haunted by pain. The speaker talks to old friends, wakes from troubling dreams, has physically intimate moments, even watches television. Yet none of these moments are...

A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder's writing offers a gritty yet sincere perspective on the dichotomy of living; pain coupled with joy. This collection delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder's...

Saint Agnostica is the final work of Anya Krugovoy Silver, a poet celebrated for her incisive writing about illness, motherhood, and Christian faith. The poems in this collection dance between opposite poles of joy and grief, community and isolation,...

4 A.M. Thoughts is a collection of poetry about love, loss, depression, anxiety, and life.  Embark on a year-long journey through 52 poems with one poem for each week of the year. This collection is divided into sections so you can choose what to...

For all those who are healing, grieving and looking for the light in the darkest of nights.When the night itself,Is a living thing,Pulsing with pain,And aching with grief,I close my eyes,And hold my breath,And cling tight to the hope,That brighter days...

Inner Flames is a collection of poems written in a time of deep realization. Inspired by both the real and the imaginary, the poems touch deep in the heart and ask questions about the way things are, have always been, or can be. They are a journey...