検索キーワード： 死・悲嘆・喪失

another comeback climbing back up out of the ooze, out of the thick black tar, rising up again, a modern Lazarus. you're amazed at your good fortune. somehow you've had more than your share of second chances. hell, accept it. what you have, you have. you walk and look in the bathroom mirror at...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Hala Alyan’s sixth collection of poetry, on power and reclamation within American, familial, and geopolitical structures. In The Domestic Empire, award-winning Palestinian poet, novelist, and memoirist Hala Alyan traces the contours of daily life, memory, and motherhood...

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical...

The essential poems of Emily Dickinson selected and introduced by Joyce Carol Oates Discover the unparalleled brilliance of one of America's most celebrated poets. The Essential Emily Dickinson brings together a carefully curated selection of her most profound and beloved works, capturing the...

A deeply moving poetry collection about grief, love, and the heavens and hells we create on earth, from the New York Times bestselling author of There’s Always This Year Your heartbreak may one day grow wide as a desert where nothing survives, but consider this: elsewhere, a child drowns in...

‘Hauntingly original… like nothing else I’ve read’ Alan Hollinghurst Where do you go to find someone who is dead? In 1996, in a ramshackle office at the heart of literary London, Maren Meinhardt met Mick Imlah. Charismatic, handsome, difficult, Mick was one of the most brilliant poets of...

For fans of Ada Limón and Kate Baer, Make Me Good Soil is a luminous, intimate new poetry collection from celebrated author Sophie Strand that explores personal love, loss, trauma healing, and illness through the lens of interspecies connection. Sophie Strand's poetry is attuned to the...

From the award-winning author of Finna comes this moving, tender collection of poems exploring love and grief throughout the journey of life in this luminous green corner of a beautiful, bruised continent. there was love between these lovers that still happened amongst it all. In Something Blue...

“To say I have a memory like a sieve would be an insult to sieves. I have a memory like a basketball filled with glue. I have a memory like a plastic croissant on a windowsill that someone is pointing to and saying, it looks so real.” In this exquisite, darkly comic debut, we meet a poet...

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author “He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter The Pleasures of the Damned features selected later poetry of Charles Bukowski, America’s most influential poet. To his legions...

In der Ballade „Die Tulipan" erzählt Lulu von Strauß und Torney von einem Mord, der nur von einer überirdischen Macht entdeckt und gesühnt werden kann. Diese überirdische Gerechtigkeit bedient sich bei der Entdeckung der Alpträume des Mörders, in denen laut sein schlechtes Gewissen spricht, und einer Blume, die aus der Zwiebel in der Hand des Ermordeten erblüht, so dass der Leichnam gefunden wird.

「生きることはわかったような気がするんだけど、死ぬっていうのはどういう感じなのかな」 谷川俊太郎さんは、亡くなる２週間前まで語ってくれました。

Even as a child, Tennyson loved the Classical world of ancient Greece and Rome. When he grew up, he often wrote about that world. In Demeter and Persephone, Tiresias, The Hesperides, Tithonus, Oenone, Ulysses, St. Simeon Stylites, and St. Agnes’ Eve, he allowed characters from the ancient...

In 1916, Rainer Maria Rilke presented his friend Rudolf Kassner with a notebook, containing twenty-two poems meticulously inscribed in his own hand and bearing the title Poems to Night. This evocative sequence of poems, which echoes some of the great themes of German romanticism, is now thought...

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...

In this poetry collection, the author invites listeners on an intimate journey of self-discovery, posing the question, “What does it mean to be alive?” Through exploring themes of grief, love, and self-identity, she reflects on personal experiences to encourage finding grace within oneself...

Seventeen years old. Olmsted Park. A bedsheet tied to a tree. Sad Boy begins with a failed suicide attempt. Across four acts and an interlude, Chris Schneider reconstructs what came afterward: forced hospitalization, social rejection, first love, sex, violence, broken promises, and graduation staged as a mock execution. The poems turn horror films, emo music, revolutionary history, and black comedy into a private language for experiences that resist being told plainly.

Et lig bliver fundet i en brandtomt indemuret i skorstenen. Liget bliver identificeret som Mats Persson - en mand der forsvandt sporløst en novemberaften i 1983. Ved undersøgelsen af Mats´ forsvinden i 80´erne kom det frem, at Mats tilsyneladende var kommet lidt for tæt på sandheden om...

O corvo é a obra mais famosa de Edgar Allan Poe, e considerado um dos poemas mais perfeitos já escritos por sua estrutura estética e literária. O enredo versa sobre os delírios de um homem após a morte de sua amada, Lenora, e trata sobre a dor da perda, a falta de esperança e a angústia da existência.