Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Books

I came back alive when so many did not. My life forever changed. Not the same man that went to war. My own mother said, "What happened to my son?" War took a nice boy and turned him into a ghost of who he was and a lost soul forever because politicians...

These poems engage the reader in a playful and entertaining journey encompassing all the elements of comedy, irony, tragedy, and romance. Enhanced by startling images and capricious humour, they reveal patterns often found in myth, dreams, and current...

The Poetry of Loss: Romantic and Contemporary Elegies presents a renewed look at elegy as a long-standing tradition in the literature of loss, exploring recent shifts in the continuum of these memorial poems. This volume investigates the tensions arising...

Writing in her diary, Mae questions God as she and her husband receive heartbreaking news about her pregnancy. Agonizing over the path ahead, the decisions they face soon threaten their marriage—is it right to bring a child into the world who...

This book consists of a collection of poems from David Bowker; the majority were written in the autumn of 2022, but others are from the mid-1990s and the 2010s. The poems are observations and thoughts on life - they are responses to the author's...

Waking. Death. Birth. Rising. In poetry and prose, Waking Wildflowers explores the journey of healing, from the discomfort of shedding your old skin to learning to be gentle with oneself.Rooted in nature, hope, and desparation, Waking Wildflowers...

The poems in All That Names Us enfold memory, loss, yearning, and those moments of feeling at home in this world, those moments of not only feeling, but of being felt. The poems attempt to embody the beauty and brokenness and the healing that make up...

Refinery is a memoir in verse from the vantage point of a young working class female speaker in coastal Alabama. This speaker appears in myriad forms as the child of a father murdered while working in the oil industry, a child grappling with sexual...

In this collection of poems, Mary Lou Kayser guides readers through some of life's biggest moments. Falling in love. Working through grief. Healing old wounds. Losing someone dear to us. Deciding it's time to move on. Coming home to our truest and most...

With tattered and soiled wings I wait for the wind to coo upon the kindling, to let my colors rush back onto me as the grime flakes away. This book is one of reflection and life lessons, a funeral of the parts of me that can't come forward with me. I am...

The poems in Lissa Kiernan's The Whispering Wall walk a tightrope between worlds-grief and praise, beauty and ruin, revelation and secrets, the sacred and the profane, dark humor and wonder-and, in that daringly exhilarating and very tricky...

"We act like children with our dead," Halyna Kruk writes as she struggles to come to terms with the horror unfolding around her: "confused,/ as if none of us knew until now/ how easy it is to die." In poem after devastating poem, Kruk confronts what we...

The poems contained in this work were the result of an outpouring of emotions and feelings that occurred over the two and one-half years of suffering my wife, Angela, endured during her struggle with pancreatic cancer.So deep and so strong was the love...

From the author of Gigs and The Reservist, John Davis's new poetry collection Guard the Dead explores the consequences of war and the struggles of the human spirit to endure. As a former Coast Guard veteran, Davis brings an authentic voice to his verses...

The long-awaited sequel to Poems He'll Never Read.In the midst of heartbreak, it's easy to lose sight of the person you were before the pain began. This poetry collection is a journey through the raw emotions of losing someone you loved deeply,...

Flowers by mistake. Poetic thoughts for self-care, self-confidence and self-loveA woman receives a bouquet of flowers that wasn't meant for her and keeps it, discovers a secret in the smoke of a cigarette, travels inside her body to wonder who she...

JR Hataway is back with his seventh poetry collection, Everything Smells Like Rain. The author continues to push the envelope of creativity with stunning metaphors and vivid visuals. Hataway also found his way into some unfamiliar poetry forms he found...

This is a collection of poetry by the author that functioned greatly as a diary as she navigated her way through the rocky existence that was her mid twenties. She describes what it's like to burn with anxiety, drown under the weight of depression, feel...

About the BookIn 'Peace Petals,' the power of harmony, peace, and the quest for it have been beautifully woven into verses of poetry. Through eloquent and heartfelt poems that explore varied themes and topics, the book explores the timeless yearning for...

Poetry is the highest form of art. In the construction of which different elements seem to be working; But these elements are interconnected in such a subtle way that to separate them would be to dull its aesthetic life. Poetry is based on imagination,...

The Raven is surely the most striking poem in the work of Edgar Allan Poe. This bilingual edition presents this narrative poem in English, the translation by Charles Baudelaire as well as the 26 illustrations by Gustave Doré. A preface and an analysis by...

"Poésie et Vérité 1942" de Paul Éluard est un ouvrage passionnant qui offre un aperçu sur son engagement politique et poétique. Écrits durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ces poèmes témoignent de son désir ardent de paix et de justice sociale, alors qu'il...

Wild Brujeria is a poetry collection on the magick of living between the lines of identity.What does being Mexican American mestizo, hard-of-hearing, narcoleptic, sapphic, and gender-queer have in common? That there is no suitable box in society for me...

Alana Kirby's poetry took TikTok by storm, reaching millions with her words of comfort and light under the pen name "Alaska Lane". Here she shares some of her most popular works in print alongside never before seen poems. Let her unspoken words carry you...

"sun eater is a reminder from dre levant to bathe in sunlight like a cat on a porch. levant manages to weave light, love, hope, and the thread of darker times, into a blanket he wraps you in. sun eater is the optimistic voice of a resilient veteran of...

Immerse yourself in the reflective poetry, where meaning is both everything and nothing. Where sound and silence meet in perfect harmony and it is more than just words on a page-it's a profound reflection, an intuitive conviction. It invites you...

Samsara at Quantum Zeno is a poetry collection where the art of language becomes a meditation on impermanence. Within the poems, Gabriel Gómez explores the essence of motion, embracing transience as a fundamental aspect of existence. This collection...

Eternal Autumn is a collection of poetry conveyed through a fusion of traditional and modern poetry styles and techniques-ballads, couplets, free verse, narrative, and haiku-and using an eclectic blend of devices, including rhyme, rhythm, refrain,...

Elle Verde shares her experiences from 2019 to 2022 in her new poetry collection, Depression of the Zillenium. Each section of the book explores a unique year of circumstance and challenges: dealing with her depression, having a job deemed as an...

Break-Up Hair & Other Poems explores the possibility of new beginnings, through the lens of a single woman of a certain age three years after a heartbreaking failed marriage. The author-now wiser, stronger, and fearless-shares her new sense of self...

For all of us who knew Kevin McIlvoy as a peerless fiction writer and miraculous teacher, here is the posthumous gift of his first poetry collection, Singing Lessons. Mc was a musician who found his truest instrument in words. Meditating on love,...

A new collection of poetry by Dannye Romine Powell remains cause for celebration; and her latest, In the Sunroom with Raymond Carver, underscores her abiding reputation as a poet of breathtaking candor and precision, the consummate craftswoman, who...

Have you ever looked at a piece of art, or closed a book, and found yourself left with deep, profound feelings?​Often our lives resonate with unexpected beauty. For Marie, wandering an art museum is like wandering the hearts of artists, seeing...

Her Whole Bright Life is a collection of poems that weave together the trauma and exhaustion of a life lived with disordered eating and the loss and grief of the death of the poet's father. Love and hunger intertwine and become inseparable as the...

1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020A poignant, poetic memoir written in the wake of the death of the author's parents, celebrating a multicultural life of love and adventure. "I was learning to be the hero of my own story. This...