Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per by Kick, Russ
Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per by Kick, Russ

Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per

Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it...
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Author: Russ Kick
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Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per by Kick, Russ

Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per

$301.80
Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per by Kick, Russ

Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Per

$301.80
Author: Russ Kick
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Pretty much every poet in every age has written about death and dying. Along with love, it might be the most popular subject in poetry. Yet, until now, no anthology has gathered the best and most famous of these verses in one place.

This collection ranges dramatically. With more than 320 poems, it goes across all of history, from the ancients straight through to today. Across countries and languages, across schools of poetry. You'll find a plethora of approaches--witty, humorous, deadly serious, tearjerking, wise, profound, angry, spiritual, atheistic, uncertain, highly personal, political, mythic, earthy, and only occasionally morbid.

Every angle you can think of is covered--the deaths of children, lost loves, funeral rites, close calls, eating meat, serial killers, the death penalty, roadkill, the Underworld, reincarnation, elegies for famous people, death as an equalizer, death as a junk man, death as a child, the death of God, the death of death . . . .

You'll find death poetry's greatest hits, including:
- Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
- To an Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Housman
- Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd by Walt Whitman
- Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

The rest of the band includes . . .
Jane Austen, Mary Jo Bang, Willis Barnstone, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Charlotte Bront , Lord Byron, Lucille Clifton, Andrei Codrescu, Wanda Coleman, Billy Collins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, T.S. Eliot, Nick Flynn, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Frost, Kimiko Hahn, Homer, Victor Hugo, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, C.S. Lewis, Amy Lowell, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, Thich Nhat Hanh, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilfred Owen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christina Rossetti, Rumi, Sappho, Shakespeare, Wallace Stevens, Ruth Stone, Wislawa Szymborska, W.B. Yeats, and a few hundred more.

Author: Russ Kick
Publisher: Disinformation Company
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.03w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781938875045

About the Author
Russ Kick is the editor of the wildly successful three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon: The World's Great Literature as Comics and Visuals and the bestselling anthologies You Are Being Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know . His books have sold over half a million copies. The New York Times has dubbed him an information archaeologist, Details magazine described him as a Renaissance man, and Utne Reader named him one of its 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World. He is creator of the popular website www.thememoryhole.com.
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