Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

In The Broken Night, poet Bruce Wasserman explores touchpoints of the little known and the unknown in conversations with the dead and a roll call of the living, to squeeze out the vibrant essence found within every word. A literary critic for the New...

The debut collection of educator, activist, and performance poet Katya Zinn, human verses takes the reader on a profound search for truth and meaning through the darkest nights of the soul. Inspired by the author's own journey through trauma, addiction,...

WHISPERS OF THE SOUL          ...SOMETIMES GENTLE                    ...SOMETIMES FIERCEA collection of poems that...

Strength and Vulnerability employs strong visual imagery to highlight emotions and reach the soul of the reader. whose utilizing many years of experience volunteering to help out those living on the streets and in make shift shelters in the growing...

for four seasonsi endured ittwelve monthswhere it was all i knewa yearof burningachingdrinkingand hurtingof fire and whiskey;and now i give what's left to you

This book contains a 1821 pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley, on the death of John Keats. It is widely regarded as amongst Shelley's most accomplished and well-known works, and is highly recommended for all poetry-lovers. Shelley's poetry is...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

After a long day, relaxing on the couch with a cup of tea and a book can be the perfect way to unwind. The Looking Glass evokes this comfort: stormy weather outside and you, the reader, warm and cozy inside. This collection of rhyming and free verse...

My Father's Gloves touches on the complex, often fraught bond between fathers and sons with raw honesty and deep emotional resonance. In this haunting poetry collection, David Spiering explores the heavy burden of a father's expectations and the...

Poetry from Within is about all of us - our own 'prisons' within relationships, jobs, divorce, school and life. Over the past 27 years serving a life sentence in an Illinois prison, the author writes about the treasures he buried before...

Janis Leslie Evans is a graduate of Howard University where she earned a master's degree in counseling psychology from the School of Education. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Buffalo State University in her hometown of Buffalo, New...

Sinew and Sea is JayLynn Fraye-Rummel's debut poetry book calling upon both the discomforts in life, and the questions that make us human. Using a mix of visceral language and blunt statements, this collection walks you through a near romantic...

Hannah used to think of herself as the girl hounded by death and darkness. Her family has been hounded by death for a long time, but they were and are even more tenaciously hounded by Life and Love, the truer, greater, realer Hound. The Hound that shows...

Slouching Toward Radiance is a collection of nature poetry, meditations, gentle advice, and nudges toward reflection. It's the sort of poetry that anyone can read, even people who don't like poetry- a book that can be picked up and paged...

"Memories saturate my heart and the story of you spills from my eyes."Speaking In Tears is the poetic journey of a heartbroken mother to find the Poetry in Grief and the Beauty in Sorrow as she mourns the death of her young daughter.Our...

The core of White Portals by Jennifer Holley Lux is a pair of elegy-sequences, like binary black holes that have captured each other, spinning and emitting energy witnessed from history measured in light years. In one sequence, she elegizes her husband,...

In Scott Withiam’s Doors Out of the Underworld, marvelous things occur: a pear talks to a man and a woman talks to a book. German restaurants dissolve into empty lots and surf clams teach life lessons. His magic touch shines a stark beam into our...

Within the pages of her second book, Sierra DeMulder delves into the corridors of her childhood in a quaint town. New Shoes on a Dead Horse explores heartache, loss, and the transformative prospect of transcending suffering, all guided by...

The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen's poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of the original Gorelets chapbook and his classic "refrigerator of the damned" online magnetic poetry...

I've written this book to share with youMy journey and my life.I've had some cool adventures, I've thought about them twice.This is my second novelIn poetry and verse,I have no educationBut I could be doing worse.I tell some sexy storiesAbout working in...

A Quietus is a collection that contemplates calm spaces between moments of life and reflects on the process of our release from existence. Delicate yet fierce, spare yet multi layered this is an emotionally affecting collection written by a poet who...

Having been writing poems for many years, in 2018 I was suddenly struck, after a thanksgiving visit to cousins in Arizona, Pennsylvania and New York, by my father’s fall and final illness.The month of being with him, before his passing, and my...

In this broad yet deeply intimate collection, Ronnie Brenner was often "awakened in the wee hours" during the course of her husband's dying to pen the thoroughly affecting poems in this book. But The Poems That Grief Wrote is not wholly centered on...

Broken into five sections-The Status Quo, The Descent, Death in the Middle, The Rising, and Return with the Elixir-"Make it a Double" is a heartfelt, humorous recounting of what it was like for the poet to be stuck on a barstool year after...

collective madness features poems that are reflections on a diagnosis of uterine fibroids at the intersection of Black womanhood. With increasing rates of infertility and fibroids among women of childbearing age, this collection offers an important...

Rachel Landrum Crumble's hard-won collection of faith and doubt Sister Sorrow traces a lifetime of decoding a childhood with a beautiful, artistic, schizophrenic mom, experiencing otherness through international travel, becoming a Yankee transplant to...

Gary Beaumier's From My Family to Yours mixes the individual human experience with universal themes and striking imagery, smoothly juxtaposing the personal and the historical. Reality lives side by side with with the magical in many of these poems--a...

In his second full-length poetry book, On Razor-Thin Tires, Charles Halsted explores connections with parents and siblings, friends and neighbors, birds and nature, and reactions to the world he lives in. Central to his life is his choice of a career in...

Two years at an assisted living facility (as the primary caregiver of her favorite relative, a celebrated character actor) kept Judith Mary Gee at a very high emotional pitch. Following his passing, she returned to her own residence bearing a grief...

What could "Hats are the Enemy of Poetry" possibly mean? Absurdly, it invites the reader to put on her thinking cap. Or better, to go bareheaded into the book, the first poem of which is entitled: Emily Dickinson is not in. Please leave a message...

The words on these pages belong to Lars Kvande, who gracefully gave permission for Kim to translate them from Norwegian to English, and also inspired Kim's own poetry journey.Poetry isn’t easily translated, it has to...

Historically poets have explored no two themes more than love and grief because they are opposite sides of the same emotional coin that we will all experience in unique and often unexplainable ways. While other anthologies validate the necessity of the...

From the shores of Australia to the concert halls of Wisconsin, Talbot's poems steadily tease out life's "joyful absurdity." Here we meet unusual people caught in endearing moments of silliness or grandeur. Talbot captures the ephemeral feelings of...

At the age of fifty-five, I was diagnosed with a huge brain tumor. I went directly to emergency surgery.A few days later, when I woke up, I did not know who I was, where I was, or what my name was, as the nursing staff all called me little girl...

Michael Gibbons had the common touch, as they say, the love of others and the ability to express this love in the way he moved, talked and wrote poems. He discovered poetry later in life but it had always been inside him like an orbit of energy that...

The dark side of Xtina Marie's poetry delves into intense emotions: heartache, loss, hurt, pain, rage, and a dangerous consuming love which can drive one insane. Dark Musings is not a collection! The author returned to the centuries old practice of...

Patricia Barone lives along the Mississippi River in Minnesota and feels very lucky to have been a part of the thriving Twin Cities writing community for over four decades. With Future Rounds the Curve, Barone is publishing her sixth book. Your Funny,...

Season of My Soul is a collection of poetry and prose that explores a journey of loss, redemption in Christ, and self-love. The poems are raw and honest, and they speak to the universal human experience of pain, grief, and hope.The poems in this...

Native Galvestonian and author Miguel Cruz begins his writing career with Dancing Letters, a collection of poetry that explores love, loss, and obsession through minimalist and blank verse.

This Revised poetry manuscript is of the pain & the hope, one finds in romance.Now known and titled as: Dolor; “Deceived By Love”. Includes 84 Poems, of 34 additional poems not previously published of poetry writings between the end of...

This poem was born on a hilltop in Vietnam in 1967. It concerns the experiences both of its author and the Vietnamese people. Its many fragments came together into final form twenty-five years later. The length of time it took to develop this elegy is a...

Swimming my way through the depths of DepressionMy legal name is Laura Jayne Inglis and my artist's name is Madame Phoenix. I am 33 years old and have been working on my book, "Swimming my way through the depths of Depression" for the last three years...

If people were still banning and burning books, Vodicka's Dear Ted would be at the top ofthe shortlist. Lars Von Trier will option this book. Pasolini would be proud.-Kim Göransson, photography and music production at feral sleep studyVodicka's Dear Ted...

Poems and Ballads by Hermann Hagedorn is a collection of poems written by the American poet Hermann Hagedorn. The book includes a wide range of poems, from sonnets to ballads, and covers various themes such as love, nature, war, and patriotism...

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...

The heavenly rhythms of light and dark and the ebb and flow of oceans haunt these devotional poems. Capturing the beauty and grandeur of nature as well as the inner landscape of memory and anticipation, grief and gratitude, awareness and heedlessness,...

Palabras que faltaron, es una recopilación de poemas escritos a través de los últimos años en honor a mi hermana mayor, a su carácter, espíritu, corazón, y vida. Posiblemente, le siga escribiendo a ella toda mi vida. Aunque en mi interior sé, que hay...