Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

OPENING FEARpoems by Teresa Orbegosotranslated by Vania Milla / preface by Margarita Saona / foreword by Yaxkin Melchy / afterword by Silvia Goldman / illustrations by Louise Castillo"I open a hole in my immortal cell, and I teach it how to die." Is this...

Incarceration ... Is it an outcome of past actions, or a pathway for reflection. Perhaps each soul is to decide for themselves?Join the author, as he works through his time in prison, and the 'head miles' he travels, reflecting on the decisions and...

This volume of 64 poems contains a small collection of 13 or so poems written by the younger Pete Gage. The final 51 poems in this third volume of Pete's poetry were written from 2021 to 2023, when the poet had come of age. (A ripe old age, you could...

 'On The Train To Hell' is a collection of poems that explores themes of sadness and grief; the turbulence of life and death, and love and loss. The poet critiques these universal experiences with nuances and personal touches. Life continues, and...

A Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 Semi-Finalist for Best Poetry.If you are underwhelmed by me, please just let me go...Poems for the End of the World is a coming of age collection and exploration of the confusing and disillusioning trek through young...

A rich and intriguing array of poems in which joy and abundance coexist with abduction and loss, both human and divine. The beauty and light of the natural world and the challenge and darkness of the Underworld come alive through the eyes of the author...

This collection Maa Patikhol is a selected Dalit poems of poet Pitambar Tarai. His poems encapsulate life-affirming values that spill beyond objective sympathy and humanism. His ideology is not in the first place, a set of doctrines; it signifies the way...

An elegiac array of poems, with nostalgic themes of loss, longing, betrayal and forgiveness, Relative Sanity reflects on a lifetime in Michigan's north country. "This lovely collection is a kind of travel narrative by a writer who 'can never get enough...

This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are...

“I Thought My Spirit & My Heart Were Tamed” is a wonderful collection of poetry by British poet Amy Levy connected through the common themes of thoughts and emotions. Levy suffered with major depression, growing worse as she got closer to her 30s and...

This book contains the thoughts in my head that I have never had the courage to say out loud. You will ride the emotional roller coaster that I have built and see the battle I have within myself daily.

A Righteous Abandonment is a collection of poems and short stories that explore and define what it feels like to be abandoned by a righteous being. Whether that being is a friend, a lover, a sibling, or a God. This contains triggering content and should...

I've led my life, frankly given to chance;I learned of love, yet what of romance?As long as human beings have been writing poetry, it's been our favorite vehicle to struggle with love and loss-and over the course of a lifetime you tend to accumulate a...

This book of poems shares my raw, personal journey dealing with the loss of suicide. It's a difficult journey to understand for those who have never walked it, and shows how the aftershocks continue to echo through the course of life. It's an...

This beautiful and heart-wrenching collection of poems explores the theme of romantic struggles and self-doubt. Through her powerful and evocative words, T. Helene takes the reader on a journey of love, loss, and self-discovery.The poems are a powerful...

Things You Don't Talk About is a collection of poetry and prose that weaves fictional and non-fictional elements to describe a ten-year depression. It explores loss, family trauma, abuse, mental health, love, and forgiveness.This collection takes you on...

A dissection of the emotional roller coaster we dare to call love. A comedic and soulful journey of love, life, and rebirth.In this collection of 19 poems covering a range of emotional highlights and dark turns, poet J. C. Sands explores what it means to...

It seems these days all I do is bring death to what I cherish most.  Persephone is the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld. Juggling this dichotomy is not easy for anyone, but Persephone wishes to be known as more than Hades' wife...

O livro contém poemas autobiográficos do autor que relatam suas várias vivências e sua experiência de se sentir como um imigrante em seu próprio país.   "Mois Benarroch é o...

Uncontested Grounds, William Conelly’s first full-length collection of poetry, is eclectic in people and places, deftly moving from vineyard to beach, to a Hollywood filmmaking set, and even to the cockpit of a jet fighter. This is also a...

In Eve Esfandiari-Denney's My Bodies This Morning This Evening we see the body in so many states-ranging from survival to affection-that it achieves a sense of the elusive. Like water, Esfandiari-Denney's poems move and seep into the gaps that...

In her fifth poetry collection, Camilla Reeve relives the final years of her husband's illness and death and her onward journey into life without him. The poems are sometimes painfully honest, but while many are deeply moving, they are never morbid...

An illustrated book of inspirational poems about grief, consolation, and carrying on."Since my mum died I make sure to take time for honouring her and this spoke to that feeling... in those moments [of reading], it's like she's still here.." COZY...

ENDlove ENDpain is my latest collection of poems that deal with the human struggle of being in love. The emotional roller coaster and the ups and downs that our souls take on this journey. This path is one of endless bliss but sometimes agony.Love is...

A poetic tongue-twisting tale that ventures into the wicked wilderness of painful memories and moments. The pain that creates a depiction of our mental afflictions. It all happens in the rapid blink of an eye. A day here, a day there, a reflection, a...

Altar of the Imagination is a work of love and loss. Each poem is a witness attempting to make order out of the three generations of women surviving an immigrant history sick with guilt and shame. When the chaos cleared and the last of the lineage is...

Asnia Asim's Quarantine with Rilke shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self-a quiet relationship between the divine and the everyday. These poems meditate on the tension between inwardly solitude and the desire to belong. Steeped in nostalgia and...

Michael Lee Bross’s debut poetry chapbook, “Meditations on an Empty Stomach”, winner of the 2015 “Arts by the People Chapbook Award”, follows the philosophical wanderings of a new father taking his first steps into...

Beginning in Pompeii, Nothing Remembers visits the US Midwest and Jerusalem, where Michael Dickel (the author) now lives. The musical contemporary and at times jazzy experimental poetry re-members loss, relationship, and human connections with the world,...

Have Love is a collection of poetry beginning and ending with love, but not the same love. Beginning youthfully, the poems move through marriage, divorce, remarriage, birth, illness, and death to survival. There is romantic and familial love, and some...

Birds in the City offers reflections on love and loss. Written from different points of view, the collection examines divorce, abuse, loss of loved ones, and the challenges of parenting. The poems explore the tension between reality and dreams,...

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...

Delve into a domestic mystery in this intriguing novel written in verse by S. H. Miah. Tasnim Alam suffers grief after the death of her beloved mother. Yet the tragedy tears open parts of her life she never knew existed. Lies and deceit attack...

Die Klage des Einwanderers Aus dem Englischen von Arno MaierbruggerD   Die Klage des EinwanderersIn Marokko war ich der Mittelpunktaller Festeein soziales Phänomenimmer umgeben von Freundenbis ich nach Israel kamund in einer Ecke...

Hope Restoring is book one in the Grace Lane Poetry collection.Featuring prayers, poems and ponderings ~ a ray of light, hope, comfort and inspiration.'You bottle our tearsas One holding precious our cares.'Penned near the ocean, from a heart pouring out...

David Alexander McFarland was born April 29, 1948 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, but spent most of his childhood in Cullman, Alabama at the Childhaven Children's home run by The Church of Christ. He found refuge in books as a child, and that continued...

An intensely private collection of love poems and prose written over a time span of more than half a century, through the courtship, marriage and ultimately grief at the loss of one man's lifetime love and soul mate. Enchanting, powerful and evocative,...

J.T. Barbarese’s poems are a dose of smelling salts in a sleepy, go- along world. The freshness of his language matches perfectly— abets, I should say—the freshness and candor of his world view. Tart and sere, and also witty and...

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during...

A book of poetry aimed at one single subject. Love. Pain and pleasure and all of the myriad of situations and emotions that a relationship can entail are included here. The writer took the plunge and bared his whole heart to the world with this endeavor...

Prvi pokušaj nekakve zbirke, koja sadrži nešto više od dvadeset pesama, i nekoliko priča.idi,ne želimo te ovde.čitaš ovo?idi.nema svrhe,zatvori knjigu i iscepaj je,i idi što dalje.idi,ne želimo te ovde.

From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco's X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a...

It begins within a whisper, a rupture of the mind; and then a hurricane swiftly follows...A collection of dark poems by Australian writer and artist FALLBLIND.

The fifteen poems in this selection by the Swiss poet Florian Vetsch - documentarian of Ira Cohen and the American beat poets, traveller, organizer of cross-cultural books and literary events - are often playful. He writes about beer; he writes about...

Hollins' poems are exquisite snapshots of love, loss, childhood, uncurled ferns and pohutukawa trees. They are at once chilling yet humorous, familiar yet absurd. They evoke an afternoon at a beachside cafe: the patrons, like his poems, seem to have been...