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Life is full of love, but it is also full of loss. Like paper cuts to the heart, every big and seemingly insignificant loss-the loss of friendships, faith, dreams, health, community, and everything in between-grieves us more than we think it will, and often more than we let on. Why? Because they matter.
In this compassionate and deeply personal book, Rachel Marie Kang invites you to see and be seen in the midst of your sorrow, your suffering-your...
2) Good Grief
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Grief comes in waves, or so they say.
Feels like it comes in hurricanes.
Lenore Lund reaches into some of the hardest places to expose, grief, identity, and love, and expresses with both metaphor and prose what it is to experience all of the above. Drawing on her own experiences of loss and relationships with both places and people, she crafts poetry in a way that brings you back to your own experiences without sacrificing her own voice. Good Grief...
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This is a poetic exploration of what it means for a son to care for his father in his final year of life, and what then arises after. After his father was, diagnosed with cancer, the author became his primary carer. During the challenges of this final year, as his father lay bedridden, the author sought solace in poetry.
These poems journey a broad field, from childhood remembrances, to family life, wilderness, the nursing home, and beyond. Nature...
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In the "great metropolitan industrial district" of East London, Riceyman Steps lead from King's Cross Road to Riceyman Square. Here in this busy neighborhood, Henry Earlforward, the proprietor of a secondhand bookstore, takes a keen interest in Violet Arb, the widowed owner of a nearby confectionary shop. The middle-aged shopkeepers marry, but their chance for late-in-life happiness is increasingly shadowed by Henry's compulsive miserliness. Violet...
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The death of a loved one throws us into a surreal world no one else can understand. The poems in Words for the Unbearable, written after the death of San Francisco Bay Area psychologist Enid Sanders' one-year-old daughter and later her husband, take readers on a down-to-earth journey through the everyday realities of grieving.
People who are, grieving are searching for comfort, understanding, and a sense of meaning after a loved one dies. Words for...
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Chalese Stevens faced every mother's worst nightmare in June of 2004. She lost her four-year-old son when he drowned in a water park swimming pool. From that day forward, motherhood changed into a nautical journey through loss and grief. This grieving mother has been able to face her devastating loss by turning her story into the raw and vulnerable pages of this book. She takes you through the painful emotions of child loss and how she handled her...
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How would you cope with losing not one, but two young children within three months of each other? This author did, and her inspiring story is weaved throughout the poems and quotes she has written. Based around grief and loss, this collection features breath taking images and honest, powerful, yet poignant verse. This mothers love and devotion for her sons and her family, will leave you appreciating life.
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Life isn't always pretty. Some people say there is nothing poetic about pain. This book proves otherwise. H.J speaks of the pain with uncanny ability and outstanding accuracy, but does so without diluting its sting. Ravenous Fate pays homage to “The Reaper”, through fictional poetry, and explores the topic of sudden loss with sensuality and an unforgettable flare. Darkness has a voice; also, now, a chance to speak and be heard....
9) Transfer
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Dusk
where is the name no one answered to
gone off to live by itself
beneath the pine trees separating the houses
without a friend or a bed
without a father to tell it stories
how hard was the path it walked on
all those years belonging to none
of our struggles drifting under
the calendar page elusive as
residue when someone said
how have you been it was
strangely that name that tried
to answer.
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One day you and the rest of your close relatives will lose a dear close and important family member like your mother, grandmother or that uncle or aunt that was so loving, entertaining and supportive.And like so many time after they pass away the generations of your family, especially the young family members, will ask you questions about the personal details of their lives in which you won't have answers for like:When she was a child, what was the...
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Adrift in an ocean of pain and confusion. Sorrow and pain are my ever-present companions. My life's path is a winding road to where? The work of salvation has been accomplished through the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. There is a process of salvation, all the events of life leading up to faith in Christ. This book of poetry is a journey capturing the emotions, the questions, and the struggles of life on the redemption road resulting...
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How does anyone survive losing a child to suicide, let alone grieve with hope? Where is God in our suffering? How does God take evil and turn it to good? Broken Butterflies: Emerging Through Grief , A Suicide Survivor's Poetic Journal answers in a mother's unique, passionate, voice:
●Love God and others who suffer, with your whole heart
●God mourns with you, gives comfort, and declares, "Death, where is thy sting!"
●God transforms you into head-turning...
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Writers On... Death' illustrates the ability of this most universal (and least understood) subject to produce some of literature's most moving and profound work. It encompasses inspirational poems about death, quotes about death, extracts from private diaries and classic literary scenes, and contains some of history's most touching, consoling and inspiring meditations on fatality. Moving between a fear of death, love and death, coming to terms with...
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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 permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner.
Many of the poems are autobiographical:...
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My son committed suicide, at the age of thirteen, on January 25, 1995. This was by far the hardest lick life has hit me with. Yet my son prepared me as best he could for his death. I missed the signs at the time.
I remember after a young lady's funeral, Brandon made the statement, "Dad that was a cool funeral. I want you to promise me to do my funeral when I die". I remarked, "You will see me die first." He insisted that I promise him if something,...
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How do you schedule a funeral for the sudden death of your three-year-old daughter when you are nine months pregnant? This is one of the many disorienting questions Tristan and Jill faced in the days following their daughter Maria's death. A Life After Death contains their reflections as they faced the tragedy of death while still embracing life, faith, and hope. It is a love letter for the daughter they lost and for their children who continue to...
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When Barbara Abercrombie's husband died, she found the language of condolence irritating, no matter how well intended. "My husband had not gone to a better place as if he were off on a holiday. He had not passed like clouds overhead, nor was he my late husband as if he'd missed a train. I had not lost him as if I'd been careless, and for sure, none of it was for the best." She yearned instead for words that acknowledged the reality of death, spoke...
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A well written collection of poetry and journaling about the grief of a young woman, and her very real, inspiring journey through that grief. Of how she came to realize exactly that, it was a journey. That the grief she suffered was so much more than the loss of a loved one, it was the loss of faith...the loss of a way of life...and the discovery that you can live beyond it. Grief in one form or another is an inevitable journey that each person will...
20) Tiny
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Tiny is a poetic retelling of Sophocles' Antigone. Instead of having two brothers who kill each other in a civil war, Tiny has one who kills himself after coming home from a far-away war. Our heroine mourns her brother, forever, but-with best friend Izzy, boyfriend Hank, and a collective dance night held in an old artificial limb store-she escapes freezing herself in grief, too.
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