Death, Grief, Loss

A rich medley of broad and deep practical knowledge of the natural world.Book InformationISBN 9781636281407Author Robin MagowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Red Hen PressPublisher Red Hen Press

With tender attention and a keenly embodied curiosity, the poems in I am the dead, who, you take care of me are acutely aware of the ways in which language communes the living and the dead. Following the poet’s recent prose work on the historical and...

In his twentieth book, most of which was first composed on the backs of medical forms while on break as a third-shift medical technician, Sean Thomas Dougherty brings us a memoir-like prose sequence reflecting on disability, chronic illness, addiction,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950268450Author Garrett CaplesFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Wave BooksPublisher Wave Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697860Author Jack FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 281g

In Michael Earl Craig's sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly familiar.Whether he be writing about the cadaver that Hans Holbein the Younger used as a model, Montana as the "Italy of God,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622882410Author Aaron BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860602Author Barbara NickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622889204Author Floyd CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

An unnamed speaker navigates a world where God comes in the shape of a cardinal, speaks in the voice of Georgia O'Keeffe, and paints the desert with bones. Driven by sound, heartbreak, and the baffling limits and possibilities of language, a nameless...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925950366Author Sandy JeffsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682011218Author J. Vincent HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint North Star Press of Saint Cloud IncPublisher North Star Press of Saint Cloud...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622882403Author Tyler JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Stephen F. Austin University PressPublisher Stephen F. Austin University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944697488Author Jack FoleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 166g

Written during an autistic breakdown after his father's sudden death, Sweeney's visionary elegy for the living occupies the voice of the newly dead. Through shifting identities, genderless, omnigendered, bereft and haunted, this work affords an intimate...

In Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a particular poetic moment that is both elegiac and also wildly entertaining. Taken from a bar of the same name in New York City,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948825494Author Hazem SultanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860770Author Yvonne BlomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578600574Author Zachry K DouglasFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Zachry K. DouglasPublisher Zachry K. DouglasWeight(grams) 354g

Enacting both the pain and heightened awareness of a body in crisis, Joshua Beckman’s latest collection of carefully assembled poetic fragments seeks to elucidate the synthetic reality of being sick and being medicated. Written from inside of illness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211450Author Abba KovnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 180mm * 149mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAward-winning writer Gerry LaFemina is the author of over twenty books, most recently The Pursuit: A Meditation on Happiness (creative nonfiction) and Baby Steps...

What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a father to tell his young sons about the everyday violence, inequities, and injustices of the world? What is a husband to do when confronted with his domestic...

Somewhere between elegy and memoir, poetry and prose, Ed Pavlic's Call It in the Air follows the death of a sister into song. Pavlic's collection traces the life and death of his elder sister, Kate: a brilliant, talented, tormented woman who lived on...

This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage, as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry, women's writing, and the process of the "confessional." Inextricably woven...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807007105Author Alexandra RegaladoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

In times fraught with ecological and individual loss, Claire Marie Stancek's wyrd] bird grapples with both the necessity and apparent impossibility of affirming mystical experience. It is at once a book-length lyric essay on the 12th-century German...

Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac...

A poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory. From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean's falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936932504Author Ali LiebegottFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735508900Author Julieanne HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Julie HoffmannPublisher Julie HoffmannWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732502307Author Robert EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Middle Island PressPublisher Middle Island PressWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Winner of the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in PoetryThey were shot, transported, deported. They were hanged, or they hanged themselves. They starved, or their hearts suddenly failed, or drugs or cancer consumed them. Others lived into their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913630829Format PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Salamander Street Modern PlaysPublisher Salamander Street Modern PlaysWeight(grams) 129g

Sun Yung Shin calls her readers into the unknown now-future of the human species, an underworld museum of births, deaths, evolutions, and extinctions.Personal and environmental violations form the backdrop against which Sun Yung Shin examines questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945796296Author Kiana AzizianFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Thought Catalog BooksPublisher Thought Catalog BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow, his first collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735434803Author Enid SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Journey PublishingPublisher Journey PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From Wallace Stegner Fellow DS Waldman, a debut poetry collection exploring memory, grief, and disability through meditations on modern art.

In a piercing and beautiful elegy for the poet’s father, this debut volume investigates the enduring pain and transformative potential of grief