Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

In this poignant and probing debut, Dani De Luca invites the reader to sit long with the realities of birth, death and the million heartbreaks between. With tenderness borne of a heart that knows, De Luca traces the multitudes of loss, while reminding us...

Let your heart light your way out of the darkness...This is a collection of poems that speak to the deepest corners of grief...and healing. On Love and Light... captures the raw emotions of loss-each poem is a journey through heartache, memory,...

"Write to me. Keep me alive," wrote Jory Post to Paola Bruni as he was dying of inoperable cancer.Hence, the quiet conversation ensued - one poet to another - an intimate, and at times playful, sharing of hopes, fears, and grief.

"Such powerful medicine-the courage and love in this book. An astonishing gift to the broken world." ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of The Unfolding and All the Honey.Joan Logghe, Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2010-2012, explores the mysterious...

The poems in Cosmology of Heaven & Hell were written over a span of four decades and set in locations from the Maritime Provinces of Canada to California and beyond. Subjects range the from the deeply personal to political and cultural figures and...

"Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. But Catherine Abbey Hodges is no common questioner. Hers is a wit-laced and vulnerable wondering as she looks back over a life-loss of parents and recollection...

What sort of transformations and revelations come through a life of intimacy with the Creator and His creation? Perhaps they are not the mundane sort, where simple stories are mere entertainment and wild wonderings are only fantasies. Perhaps they are...

Part American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's Ripenings is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. "Revelation...

In the neighborhood of Jim Peterson’s Speech Minus Applause, the dog bowl refills itself. There is nothing and everything to do. Thought is the only sound, and strangers, friends, animals and loved ones, old and new, come and go like...

That Rain We Needed is one man's search for his place of true belonging in an imperfect world. Sometimes comical, other times poignant, always willing to be vulnerable-here Sam Barbee unfolds his map for negotiating family and its complicated...

Not luminous, not ethereal, not numinous. These poems you are holding, as you do toothpaste or whiskey, are firmly sustained for use on earth. In mining her own life for material, Stella Padnos-Shea creates an intimate support circle for the living,...

Slow Dance with Sasquatch is an invitation into a private ballroom, a banquet hall in the middle of the woods.  Here, you will sit and feast and waltz with your monsters. Here, you will harvest imagination from loneliness and longing. Here, you...

"Lessons from a Dragonfly" is an intimate poetry collection exploring the emotional journey of a relationship's end. Through candid and reflective verse, the author confronts the complexities of questioning, dismantling, rebuilding, and ultimately...

"I awoke to this world on a snowy March afternoon in 1964, thrusted into the bowels of Glenbryn, Ardoyne. It was a peaceful almost tranquil place in those days where religion was never mention. Then in 1969 it was to be in the eye of the storm."For over...

Denise Eustace currently lives in Oxfordshire where she teaches English Literature at a Sixth Form College. She has been writing poetry for many years and has had several of her poems published in various magazines. In 1992 she came joint first in a...

In this debut chapbook, feline companions, nature, and imagination help the poems' protagonist and readers navigate different ages of loss by being mindful in the search for refuge. Better Living through Cats takes readers on a transtemporal excursion to...

Nrusingh Tarai's poems have an unusual freshness & vividness & clarity about them. His language, phrase & rhythm has a rare felicity & flexibility that enables his poetry to acquire an identity of its own. He is prolific, not to say...

Do, please, check out the final stanza of "Flutter" for a nutshell demonstration of sound gorgeously orchestrated in language, or look at the sly echo of "things" and "rings" (with its diminuendo in "tightening" a few lines later) in this collection's...

Learning to Sleep in the Middle of the Bed got its title before the collection of poems came together. Through poetry, Alexis Cameron Stark wrote her way through difficult and uncomfortable emotions and experiences from her first-year post-grad. Growing...

From his chapbook, Spiked Libido, to his unpublished manuscript, Unholy Melodies collects the entire body of work of Ted Jonathan. Images of the original chapbook, Spiked Libido, are followed by complete, unchanged presentations of both Bones & Jokes...

Family Promises is a collection of poems that are like prisms that reflect Laura's unique blend of humor, irony and clarity. Her signature style of irreverence and honesty are in full display as she faces life's challenges without flinching. She bravely...

Until now Perry County has not been included on the literary map of Mississippi. My debut collection of poems changes that atlas. These poems, some historical, other's lyrics, record the topography of my memory of this county where I grew up...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer most famous for his stories set in and related to colonial India. He innovated the art of short story writing and was one of the most popular writers in...

Cover Art by Beth Barnett.These 64 poems are divided into two sections, Sorrows and Sweetness. These poems are very personal and intimate, yet firmly grounded in the real world. They cover such topics as Latine culture, family, feminism, home, memory,...

Explore a Journey of Growth: Navigating Intense Emotions, Relationships, and Mental Health Struggles Through the Lens of Modern Poetry.In The Pretty The Ugly, the author embarks on a journey of self-discovery, chronicling her experiences and...

Edgar Allan Poe inspired poetry from thirty-one international poets. Featuring:Arun 'Harry' Hariharan Aleksandra VujisićBarbara SmithBernardo VillelaCorina SavuD.C. HoustonDawn DeBraalEric ShelmanGabriella BalcomGladys Marie CubiasGregory PatrickGreta...

Poetry Collection by Collin Van Son. Collin Van Son graduated from Penn State University in 2018 with a degree in physics. His senior thesis, a short story collection titled "If You Don't Laugh, You Cry," was awarded the Henry W. Sams Award for Best...

“To read Climbing Clouds Catching Comets is to clamber inside the mind of a writer whose talent fizzes on the page: with love, pain, empathy and a wisdom far beyond his young years. Alexander wrote of the world he knew- a world of...

A selection of twenty-five poems that traverse the line between personal mythologies, fairytale, and brutal fact. "By turns playful, astute, and moving." - Jen Campbell

A bilingual poetry book in English and Portuguese that is also a portal that divides two worlds: the U.S. and Brazil, leaving brain and heart halved: half English, half Portuguese, half love, half life. But it's also an opportunity to live life fully, in...

"Who knows if the grief / I squeeze through my lips can be borne?" says an ancient Aztec singer. In this collection, prize-winning poet Alicia Hokanson sets out to map the raw boundaries of grief by ruthlessly examining occasions and consequences of...

Poetry. South Asian Studies. The meeting of times, a secret basement press, the beauty of Urdu, a broken god, the Buddhas of Bamiyan, a woman's riotous tresses are some of the lush images that weave the rich and complex tapestry of poems in Stones Hold...

At times somber, but brutally honest, Nomads on a Barren Plain: Poems on Life and Loss examines dying and grief through the lens of individual moments, both illusory and real. In this collection, Michelle Spaw draws on historical events and personal...

The Universe You Swallowed Whole is a collection of poems that fly from the microcosm of ripples in a lake to the macrocosm of light bending in a black hole, from math to jazz, from informal to formal, from the here-and-now to the hereafter. This short...

In the original Dutch, moordener is murder and kill is creek. In this powerful collection of poetry, we follow these dark waters through a remarkable series of landscapes – real and imaginary, past and present, personal and political – joined...

 Zehra is a pen name of Chyanika Gola a Numerologist, Graphologist and a Tarot card Reader.A woman who is in love with love and the beauty of its pain, which has given her a reason to write her first book on poetry named EHSAAS-E-ZEHRA.She feels...

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...

Night Musings; The Minstrel Of The Dales; The Haunted Glen; And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by Scarr Grover and published in 1847. The book contains a variety of poems that explore different themes such as nature, love, and spirituality...

A Collection of Poetry by Hannah MosingWritten by a young woman living with anxiety and PTSD from traumatic situations that no one should ever have to endure, this collection includes 80 heartfelt poems that traverse the landscapes of grief from loss of...

A collection of poems describing loss and grief by Tracey Dene Powell, with illustrations by Kevin Becken. This debut collection details the year-plus grief journey of the author after the loss of a close friend and mentor. As a writer, and a woman who...

A posthumously published collection of new essays and poems from the much loved author, playwright, educator, humorist, E. Reid Gilbert. The author is well known for his touching and compassionate forays into the fundamental questions we all confront...

In lyric fury, Betsy Andrews aims at the heart of sickness within our ailing body politic. Cutting and brilliant, she addresses the "dragons" within the birds chased by us into extinction, writing toward the true monsters who plunder the planet for...

agriculture of grief: prayers for my father's dementia charts the gradual loss of a beloved parent to dementia. The poems here attempt to navigate multiple landscapes of mourning, multiple iterations of loss. They are quite literally grounded in grief,...

Special 2nd Edition: Step into a realm of resilience and renewal with Awakening Your Inner Light, a captivating collection of poetry that explores the profound journey of overcoming trauma and fear. In this soul-stirring anthology, each poem serves as a...

Singing out of tune, revolution and angerDear reader:You must read this book before they issue a decree to shed my bloodThey are poems that break everything and rebel against everythingA collection of my revolutionary and out-of-the-ordinary poetic...

In her debut poetry collection, AKW navigates the intricate journey of the human experience across four sections representing living/loving, grieving, learning, and growing. Through the poems, she illustrates how these phases intertwine, often occurring...

A collection of poems about moving on from a lost love and the struggles of coming to terms with the past while also grieving an imagined future that will never be. The author writes in a way that is relatable to those going through a breakup, but also...