Death, Grief & Loss

Human civilization has come of age. Today, we enjoy unprecedented comfort and convenience compared to our predecessors a couple of centuries ago. Yet, human relationship, like animals in the wild, has largely remained primordial in nature. Regardless of the narratives and justifications, brutal...

Words Make a Way Through Fire is an intimate, courageous memoir of a woman shattered by witnessing her eldest brother's suicide when she was a teenager. It traces her creative journey of recovery and healing, with poetry as a constant companion. The primary means by which Cyra Sweet Dumitru...

A career-spanning volume of the poet’s work charts the seasons of a woman’s life through desire and motherhood, grief and the consolations of poetry “Reading Jill Bialosky’s poems feels like taking a slow and lone journey into the depth of the human heart, yet all the while being...

Anne Carson's first original work since Float (Knopf, 2016) A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2024 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Published here in a must-listen edition, several of the twenty-five startling poetic...

Trouble is brewing at the home of the hero Odysseus, who has spent years fighting in the Trojan Wars and is now captive of the beautiful nymph Calypso. Hordes of suitors to his wife have invaded the family house, and Odysseus' son Telemachus sets out to find his father. Freed from the clutches of Calypso after the intervention of Zeus, Odysseus begins his epic return journey.