Product Description: Mary Jo Bang's fifth collection, Elegy, chronicles the year following the death of her son. By weaving the particulars of her own loss into a tapestry that also contains the elements common to all losses, Bang creates something far larger than a mere lament...read more

Product Description: The elegies in The Strength of Materials both praise and commemorate the material world in all its beauty and fleetingness; they speak of loss and recovery, of bereavement and resilience, of the interconnectedness of grief and joy. This is her fifth book of poetry.

Loss and sorrow are key themes in this collection of poems and elegies by Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, W. S. Merwin, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millary, and Stanley Kunitz, among others. (view table of contents)

A meditation on losing a pet dog combines vintage photography of canine lovers and their animals with reflections from Rudyard Kipling, Eugene O'Neill, James Thurber, and others. Original.

A poetic testimony to love and death is filled with poignant images of the last days of Jane Kenyon, who, when she died, left behind a sad and angry husband, many others who grieved, and a poet determined to celebrate her life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: A quartet for spoken voices in symphonic form, this poetry explores the events surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, 1945.

Product Description: The loss of a cherished pet is a deeply painful experience. This unique approach to pet loss books presents a poignant collection of poetry and stories written as tributes to dogs and will tug at the heartstrings of dog lovers. It provides comfort and healing for anyone mourning the loss of a beloved dog...read more

Product Description: Mark Irwin’s boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry. This book of three elegies explores the nature of remembered time and space—personal, historical, geological—against the progression of time—evolution, germination, cell division, nuclear fission, the decay of memory and feeling...read more