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The art of losing : poems of grief and healing
Title:
The art of losing : poems of grief and healing
ISBN:
9781608190331
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2010.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 311 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Reckoning. Musée des Beaux Arts / Dying / The wake / "After great pain, a formal feeling comes-- " ; 'My life closed twice before its close-- " / Secret knowledge ; Much hurrying / The race / The whale / Silence / Futility / Lament / Not waving but drowning / Do not go gentle into that good night / Pyrrhic victory / The mower / No more / Loss / Sudden / Funeral blues / Graveyard blues / Without / For a woman dead at thirty / Final Notations / One continuous substance / Iron / Bereavement / This hour and what is dead / (Carrion comfort) / Choir practice / To Bhain Campbell ; Epilogue / Sea canes / Autumn passage / Let evening come / Regret. Nothing gold can stay / The spots / Dreaming of the dead / Grief / Elegy for Jane / On the death of fiends in childhood / The shout / We assume : on the death of our son, Reuben Masai Harper / Written on the due date of a son never born / Stillbirth / Mid-term break / A litany / How some of it happened / Freedom, New Hampshire / Ice / The last hellos / "oh antic God" / Speaking to my dead mother / The reassurance / My sister, who died young, takes up the task / Elegy for my father / Men at my father's funeral / On the death of a colleague / Marquee moon / The facts of grief / David Lemieux / Dirge without music / Remembrance. After / Poems for my brother Kenneth / Artifact / Remember me / Death is a woman / Tiara / A memorial : son Bret / The morning baking / Hand me down blues / Grief / Myth / The bones of my father / A song / Those winter Sundays / Asked for a happy memory of her father, she recalls Wrigley Field / forgiving my father / White crane / Elegy / cosmos, late blooming / Abiku / A refusal to mourn the death, by fire, of a child in London / Luke and the duct tape / Birthday poem / You don't miss your water / The dead

Ritual. Water / My religion / The truth the dead know / Listen Lord : a prayer / Dedication for a plot of ground / Facing it / Funeral rites / Not forgotten / After your death / Disposal / Seersucker suit / Until she returns / the oboe in Handel's largo from Xerxes as elegy / Transaction / My father's body / My mother's body, my professor, my bower / Dead letters / "I needed to talk to my sister" / Fatal April / Celestial music / God / Trying to pray / Ice storm / Wasteful gesture only not / Blues procession / I just wanna testify / Incensation at the funeral / My father's funeral / Cold calls / Burial (no woman no cry) / Mourners / Lament / Request / Elegy / Translation / Storm valediction / One art / Prayer / Recovery. My heart / Poem / The gilded shadow / On new terms / For the anniversary of my death / Hum / Try to praise the mutilated word / Grief / My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Vigil / Practice / Re : happiness, in pursuit thereof / Light turnouts / Living alone (II) / Beach roses / Death poem / Infirm / It is what it is / 12/19/02 / Weeds and peonies / The lilacs / Father / After my death / Lucky life / Wild Geese / The waking / Redemption. The trees / In the city of light / And death shall have no dominion / What are years? / First psalm / Evening / The grasses / Redemption song / The clay hill anthology / When death comes / "i thank you God for most this amazing" / Unsolicited survey / And yet the books / Last words / Music is in the piano only when it is played / Coda / Litany / Notes from the other side / Self-portrait / The mother / Did this ever happen to you / An Arundel tomb / Poem for a survivor / Letter from God / Otherwise / To breath / Train ride
Abstract:
Poems about the various stages of grief, with 150 selections from a variety of 20th-21st century poets.