Poetry - Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

In Amerigun, a stunning collection of loss and rediscovery, poet Anne Marie Macari revisits her brother Edward's long-ago death by a self-inflicted gunshot. Interweaving and disentangling her own memories and those of her family, and by reconstructing a legal and medical paper trail, Macari...

The intensely confessional work of Japan's most famous modernist poet, considered the Japanese Rimbaud, whose poems have inspired cultlike devotion--especially among fans of the hit anime show Bungo Stray Dogs--in a brilliant new translation, the most comprehensive in English A Penguin Classic Nakahara Chūya...

Mubanga Kalimamukwento's multi-lingual, hybrid collection of essays and poems, Another Mother Does Not Come When Yours Dies, is a kaleidoscope of emotions: at once self-excavation and epitaph, exhumation, and burial song. These words are a conversation between the present and the past.Kalimamukwento deftly navigates...

Archy, a New York City cockroach, and Mehitabel, a New York City alley cat, were characters created by "The Evening Sun" columnist Donald Robert Perry Marquis. The subject of hundreds of humorous poems and stories, Archy is portrayed as having been a free verse...

A lyrical reckoning with grief, power, and the beauty of resistance.This collection of short written works and poetry unfolds like an aria; layered, expressive, and unapologetically human. Through themes of loss, survivorhood, and the quiet violence of political and corporate systems, it challenges the...

"Sylvia Plath's last poems have impressed themselves on many readers with the force of myth. They are among the handful of writings by which future generations will seek to know us and give us a name." -- The Critical QuarterlySylvia Plath's celebrated collection.When Sylvia...

"Made up of poems that are so original in their style and so startlingly accomplished in their confessional voice that they helped change the direction of contemporary poetry, Ariel is a masterpiece." -- New York ObserverSylvia Plath's famous collection, as she intended it.When Sylvia...

Lyric meditations on writing poetry in a time of ecological crisis and right wing populismDuring the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for...

Ask Me is Heidi Rose Robbins' third book of poetry. It explores the loss of her father and the following four years of reckoning and emergence. Here, you will find poems of reinvention and reclamation. Each poem is a stepping stone on the path...

At the Gate gathers more than seventy previously unpublished poems by the iconic American poet Lucille Clifton written over the last two decades of her life. Discovered in digital archives by poet and scholar Kazim Ali, these poems span a prolific and reflective period...

"Refusing parallel movement, the hands/ Those empty frames. Imagine holding/ a Memory--or was it a photograph" In this rich, prismatic collection, D.S. Waldman guides readers through the halls of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, into encounters with Georges Braque and Frida Kahlo,...

The Pulitzer Prize winner's final written work: poems of penetrating acceptance and humor, whose soul-sweeping gaze encompasses his own autobiography and the broken world he nonetheless gives thanks for "His hands strip poetry to its nub." --Los Angeles Times "Reading [Wright] is like walking...

Beyond Thoughts is a poetry collection that explores the root cause of anxiety, depression, guilt, shame, negative thinking, and emotional suffering to help you heal.This book will take you on a beautiful journey of self-discovery, self-love, happiness, hope, and deep healing to help you...

Blade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness.Danusha Laméris's third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for...

In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress of destruction. From August 23, 2005, the day Tropical Depression Twelve developed, through August 28 when it became a Category Five storm with its "scarlet glare fixed on the...

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against...

Blue Opening, Chet'la Sebree's brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins--of illness, of language, of the universe--as the speaker contemplates whether she, too, can be a site of origin through motherhood. Navigating chronic health challenges alongside grief and questions about the nature of knowledge...

Una de las piezas teatrales imprescindibles de Federico García Lorca.Federico García Lorca dirigió La Barraca, experiencia teatral decisiva para la escena española. Desde 1918, cuando publicó su primer libro, hasta su muerte, no dejó nunca de componer versos y escribir teatro. Austral presenta en...

"My Spanglish," Peggy Robles-Alvarado declares, "drops the -s and makes it ma' o meno'," replaces accent marks with side-eye, "has a Tía sin papeles," and recognizes that "there is no other way to say-- / Cónchole papi, you look good!" Igniting across tongues, cultures,...

"The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles."--Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author"He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels."--Leonard Cohen, songwriterBurning in Water, Drowning in Flame is poetry full of gambling, drinking and women. Charles Bukowski writes realistically about the seedy underbelly of life.Author: Charles...