Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

A moving, thought-provoking, and emotional anthology of classical and contemporary poems from across the world that invites us to celebrate poetry's power to capture the truths that really matter. 100 Poems That Matter examines universal themes of love, loss, and the experiences that define...

100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a PoemImplicit...

Ferocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of viewa body more tolerable is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinized female rage. Divided into three parts,...

"A kaleidoscopic and finely-tuned voice full of acuity, wit, intelligence and, perhaps most importantly, a deep and defiant love for a world burning at its edges. I am so grateful to have come upon this true poet." --Ocean VuongA gorgeous collection of poems exploring...

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the...

A handsome tome of dark poetry to feed the fans of all things macabre, gothic, and weird. The perfect book for fans of Edgar Allan Poe and, more widely, for those who love their dark side with a touch of horror. Poetry's fascination with...

Poet Courtney Peppernell invites us on a journey through a very long winter, a month of Sundays dark and unforgiving enough to make you question your strength and purpose of living. Courtney Peppernell, bestselling poet and author of the acclaimed Pillow Thoughts series, returns...

New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud's A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat -- a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from "the examination of his own depths."...

"a thousand voices whispering is a living archive of memory, grief, and resilience. It is an intimate chorus of voices carried across oceans and generations. Through poetry that moves like both prayer and testimony, Biala transforms family histories of migration, trauma, and survival into...

Neil Hilborn returns with the poignant and profound collection About Time. Balancing between devastation and perseverance, About Time shares the struggle to maintain mental health during the recent global crises. With his distinctly conversational tone and dark humor, Hilborn breaks down the cycle of...

DAVID DUCHOVNY'S SEVENTH PUBLISHED--AND FIRST POETIC--WORK covers a range of intimate themes and topics, including love, the loss of love, parenting, Duchovny's own parents (in particular his father, who looms large throughout the work), alienation, and other emotional quandaries. Fans of Duchovny's fiction will...

DAVID DUCHOVNY'S DEBUT BOOK OF POETRY covers a range of intimate themes, in particular his relationship with his father, who looms large throughout the work. Here, Duchovny's typically clever wordplay distills to an emotionally impactful portrayal of what the author holds most dear. His...

Woven from dreamlike and echoing images, After Image travels between life and death, between a living body and its absence.A house, an orchard, "a shudder of blossoms." A fountain, a bed, a sudden spring snow. Carefully woven from a dreamlike set of images which...

Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.'s After the Operation reports from the No Man's Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor. What does the mind feel like after something has been taken out of your skull? "An uninhabited coast," or...

Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry "When I wake I'm in ninth grade again," begins "Reunion," the first poem in Caleb Nolen's debut collection Afterlight. These haunting, tender poems revisit the fraught adolescence of a group of boys growing up in...

A poetic journey through the past of the Roman Empress Agrippina looks toward the future Agrippina the Younger follows one woman's study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter...

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses. In haunted poems glinting with laughter, Saeed Jones explores the public and private betrayals...

In All the Honey, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer holdsboth fine, honest sensuality and slow explorations ofsoul. What is shared here is a way forward in life, a fierceopenness that refuses nothing--that knows damageand healing, darkness and radiance, sorrow and wingedresurgence, reflection and laughter and learning.Author:...

Marking Aiden Heung's debut collection, All There Is to Lose is the 2024 winner of the Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. The selecting judge, National Book Award Finalist Ilya Kaminsky, praises the resonant particularities and depth of feeling found in these poems,...

"What if you spend the rest of your life chasing love, only to find her cowering in the pit of your stomach?What then?" Almost Loved follows an adoptee from foster care, as she searches for love and healing, while pushing back on the labels...