Narrative temaer: død, sorg, tab

We are the only beings on earth who intrinsically wonder about our own end. But is there a way to elicit more elegant, gentle questions? Maybe something finer can be imparted, a way to bring the inevitable grief this life holds, into the love it really is. In this lyrical essay, poetry and the beauty of dreams mingle with remembrance. Journey from a child's view of life's end to a perspective in time much closer to that end, and something as familiar as an old friend comes into focus, greets us, and teaches us its ways.

A refusal of the modern tendency to exile death and the dying, but also an invitation to revisit the old Epicurean dictum: Death is nothing to us.

In The Birds, The Rabbits, The Trees, Briony Collins deconstructs a year of grief and an abusive relationship through her evocative poetry. Pink daisy chains and letters to mum clash with broken thumbs and Bundy black eyes as Collins expertly weaves between the light and dark of a life of loss. Her cutting yet delicate language leads the reader on a journey through pain to empowerment.

" lyrical and compelling, expansive and uplifting"Eileen Neil is a poet and an artist from the North of England. Her first collection, Invisible Pulses speaks to the invisible pulses in and around us all. There are poems of birth, life, love and hope. There are poems of loss. There are poems of the power of beauty and of nature. These poems transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. A stone held in a hand becomes a talisman. A walk on a beach which becomes an encounter with something else, something more. Eileen's poems speak to the pilgrim soul in all of us."at the heart of Eileen Neils' poetry is her deep appreciation of the natural world. She concerns herself too with birth, rebirth and renewed hope, and skilfully interweaves mythology and landscape into her creations. Many poems are havens of beauty and refuge. 'Bedquilts' and 'Is It I?' are idylls any reader would gladly return to. Similarly the wild, stormy North has its allure. We experience this in the rousing poem 'After the Pandemic'. Neil's entire collection could be described as 'a palace of the imagination' (the title of her first poem) - it is lyrical and compelling, expansive and uplifting." Linda Marshall writer and poet (Brakken City, Half Moon Glasses and Cloud Cuckoo Café)

Meliorism is a poignant and thought-provoking collection of poems authored by MIMI. The book is a rich tapestry of emotions, perspectives, and experiences that will leave readers feeling both challenged and inspired.The poems in Meliorism are divided into a wide range of themes that cover everything from love and loss to hope and despair. Some of the most powerful works in the collection include "The Sorrows of Humanity," which speaks to the pain and suffering that we all experience as humans, and "Hero Villain's Arc," which explores the complex nature of morality and the choices that we make in life.Other standout poems in the collection include "Neutral Times," which captures the ennui and malaise of modern life, "The Path In-between," which offers a meditation on the search for meaning and purpose, and "After Death No Life Ahead," which confronts the inevitability of mortality and the mysteries of what may lie beyond.Throughout the collection, MIMI's writing is both lyrical and evocative, drawing readers into a world of rich imagery and vivid emotion. The poems are also marked by a deep sense of empathy and compassion, reflecting the author's keen insight into the human condition.Meliorism is a must-read for anyone who appreciates poetry that is both challenging and inspiring. With its powerful themes, evocative imagery, and lyrical writing, this collection is sure to leave a lasting impression on readers long after they have turned the final page.

Written in pandemic, Rick Benjamin's The Mob Within the Heart, is a poetic witnessing: of illness and loss, of harm to the more-than-human sentient world, of cultural, familial & political conflict, and of deep, enduring, lasting love-of people, & of the planet & everything on it. In this book, it is all happening at the same time: Covid and Black Lives Matter; praise of all sentient life, while also testifying to the damage already done; a fracture-defying inter-connectedness among loved ones, and other "families" (biological, chosen, messed up & made). Benjamin's work is a series of snapshots occurring at once, a commitment to train attention in as many different directions as possible in this particular moment. As Dickinson says in her own poem, it's a crowded heart, but one with a beat no laws can touch, ultimately asking, simply, just the best of us, or, at the very least, so much more.

»en dag kommer du hjem igen og så lover jeg at vi hører Rachmaninov hver eneste nat drikker vodka af vandglas og spiser sødt rugbrød med rosiner så du ikke skal føle dig ensom nuhvor du ikke længere skal være alene i et fremmed land«Victor Lange (f. 1993, Århus) er ph.d.-studerende på Sektion for filosofi og Afdeling for Neurovidenskab, Københavns Universitet. Hans forskningsområder er primært meditation, depression og psykedelika. Han er redaktør og meditationsinstruktør på platformen Regnfang. 'Jeg har hørt at du lever videre' er hans debut som digter, og digtsamlingen er ligeledes illustreret med Victor Langes egne illustrationer. Derudover har han publiceret akademiske og journalistiske tekster.

Jeg går i en milliard stykker. Eksploderer som stjerner i atmosfæren. Forsvinder i et sort hul af tårer og snot.Mine knæ kollapser under mig. Det værker i kroppen, da jeg rammer jorden. Men jeg kan ikke gøre noget, end ikke røre mig. Er lammet af sorgen, der indhenter mig med katapultkraft.Gustavs bedste ven Benjamin døde i en trafikulykke.Rasmus’ far faldt om med hjertestop.Ofelias mor gik bort efter et længere sygdomsforløb.Sidsels mormor har svær demens og er på en måde allerede væk.I august mødes fire unge i en sorggruppe. Sammen skal de undersøge, hvad sorg egentlig er og gør ved én. Hvorfor kan sorgen være så svær at sætte ord på? Og hvordan får den så meget magt?Stav til sorg er en Young Adult-roman om sorg, identitet, venskab og familierelationer.

A beautifully designed graphic novel bringing to life Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary confidant, as she searches for her missing friend in the modern world. ___________________I had no clue when I came back to life, or how it happened. I just know there was a terrible storm outside the house . . . It's the middle of the night at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, when a thunderbolt shatters the glass case holding history's most famous diary.Magically, Anne's imaginary friend, Kitty, comes to life. But when Kitty learns that Anne and her beloved sister Margot died in the war 75 years earlier, she decides to run away, taking the diary with her.Following the path of the sisters all the way to where they met their fatal end, Kitty encounters the European refugee crisis and Anne's legacy. Join Kitty on her journey of discovery in Where Is Anne Frank . . .___________________Praise for Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation'A stunning, haunting work of art . . . The comedy of the diary - one of the book's most charming and often overlooked aspects - shines in this form' New York Times Book Review'Faithful to the spirit and often the language of the diary . . . the beautiful artwork offers a charming and convincing view of Anne on the page' Economist'A modern classic' The Times

TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO THE YORKSHIRE MOORS IN THE 1800s AND DISCOVER A GHOSTLY TALE OF MAGIC AND WICKEDNESS'The perfect book for a cold winter's night . . . an immersive gothic tale, dark and mysterious. Truly haunting!' Anita Frank 'An atmospheric, eerie read' Prima ---- Annie Stonehouse has been married a year when she first sets eyes on Guardbridge, her husband Edward's forbidding Yorkshire estate. It fills her with apprehension. Warned it is a place of ill omen, she discovers hints of Edward's deceased first wife and child - a subject her new husband will not discuss. Iris - Edward's sister - prowls the house and talks of communing with spirits. Black feathers, she claims, are a sign left by ghosts. What are they doing at Guardbridge? Annie feels watched. She feels threatened. The house - and its feathers - frightens her. But what should she fear most: the ghosts trapped by the past, or the living desperate to be free of it?----'A chilling and atmospheric tale . . . you are drawn into a haunting mystery that will keep you guessing' Yours 'Reminiscent of Jane Eyre and The Silent Companions . . . Spooky, twisty, with a surprisingly emotional pay off' Kate Collins 'Looking for an atmospheric read to while away the autumn nights? This Gothic ghost story delivers intrigue and suspense in spades' Good Housekeeping 'Chilling, haunting and incredibly moving' Barabara Cowperthwaite 'With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca. . . a spine-tingling ghost story' Iris Costello 'If Halloween whets your appetite for Victorian Gothic, the author of The Whistling delivers once again' Saga'A chilling gothic thriller' Woman's Own Praise for The Whistling 'Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie' Guardian 'A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever' 5***** Reader Review 'Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying' Daily Mail

Ny roman af forfatteren til Kramp, chilenske FerradaRamón flytter ind i et billboard ved motorvejen. Derfra er udsigten storslået, stjerner foroven, billygter forneden og dragende bjerge i baggrunden. Men de tilbageværende beboere i blokken er foruroligede: Hvad er det med, Ramón? Hvorfor? Og samtidig er der ballade med de husvilde nede ved kanalen. Hvad vil de her? De skal væk!Prisbelønnede María José Ferrada har igen skrevet en bog, der langsomt kryber under huden på sin læser og vækker uro, undren og eftertanke.12-årige Miguel er fascineret af sin onkels usædvanlige boform, men kvarteret summer af sladder om, at Ramón er gal og bringer skam over samfundet.María José Ferrada (f. 1977 i Temuco, Chile) er journalist og forfatter. Hun har skrevet en række prisbelønnede børnebøger og fik sin voksenlitterære debut i 2017 med romanen Kramp (da. 2020), der modtog den chilenske kritikerpris, det chilenske kulturministeriums pris og Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago – det er uden fortilfælde, at de tre priser er tildelt samme roman. Manden i billboardet har modtaget Prêmio do Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile, og Ferrada er fortsat på listen over de ti kvindelige chilenske forfattere, alle bør kende.

"A stunning collection that embraces both the sensuality and the profound meaning of small moments." -Kirkus Reviews¿¿"Along the Way seems to follow one softly and simply-stated revelation after another, as if Rivers is tracking a scent rather than blazing a trail. Either way he is an excellent guide, and is comfortable both in and out of form. It's been a long time since I've been so honestly and humbly instructed in a book of poetry."- Rick Benjamin, author of Some Bodies in the Grief Bed, Floating World, and Endless Distances

Many poets write about the natural world - few poets write while acting directly to defend the natural world like environmental activist and attorney Will Falk does in When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. The natural world speaks, Falk insists, in these biophilic poems written from the frontlines of land defense campaigns. These poems are a record of what Falk heard from the natural world in places like Thacker Pass, Nevada where Falk set up a protest occupation in a beautiful mountain pass set for destruction by an open pit mine and Hawaii's Mauna Kea where Falk helped to blockade telescope construction from desecrating the sacred mountain. At a time when the destruction of the natural world is intensifying, When I Set the Sweetgrass Down will help readers find the courage they need to - and remind them why they must - act to defend the source of all life: the natural world.

Når livet giver dig en dysfunktionel familie, en altoverskyggende tragedie og forbudt kærlighed… Emerys verden blev revet itu, da hendes far forlod familien, og hendes tvillingesøster kort efter døde af en uhelbredelig sygdom. Det hele bliver kun værre af, at nu flere år senere er selvsamme sygdom ved at æde sig ind under huden på Emery. Emery tager et nødvendigt valg: Hun må finde sin far og give sin mor ro. Faren har stiftet ny familie, så Emery skal ikke bare genfinde tilliden til ham, men også sin nye stedmor og den jævnaldrende stedbror, Kaiden. Kaiden er alt det, som Emery ikke er. Han er populær, flot og mest af alt irriterende. Men de nye omstændigheder bringer dem sammen, og Emerys verden forandres for altid. Halve hjerter er en smuk og hjerteskærende fortælling om usynlig sygdom, sorg og kærlighed, og hvordan sorg og traumer kan føre til et umage venskab.

"Three of a Perfect Pair" is a collection of three poetry chapbooks by Jeffery Greb under a single cover. "Principals and Interest" found its origins through a health crisis; the second, "A Dismal Tide," was inspired by MeToo and graphically presents violence against women in order to demonstrate the magnitude of the problem and how its importance outstrips other types of objectionable behavior; and the last, "Words at Play," is unified by its emphasis on language itself.

It's 1990 in London, Tom Hargreaves is a tabloid journalist who begins to probe long-held secrets of an Irish family implicated in a shocking crime when he stumbles across dead child on a London estate. Will the generations of secrets stay hidden or will the tabloids unearth everything?

Wildfire season in the British Columbia Interior. Experienced firefighting pilot Rafe Mackie loses control of his airplane while doing a routine drop and plummets to his death. The investigation that follows unleashes revelations that forever change the lives of three people: Will, the pilot who watched his mentor crash; Sharon, the widow struggling to come to terms with her loss; and Nathalie, an accident investigator with shadowy connections to the incident. As a form of the truth emerges, these three are drawn into a tangle of secrets and lies, passion and grief, blame and forgiveness that forces them to confront the actions that brought one man's life crashing to an end. In her second novel, Frances Peck creates another explosive literary page-turner, one that probes love, loyalty, and the ways we try to conceal and redeem our lives.

Alice Teeter's Book of Revelations is gentle and brutal, devoid of the supernatural and full of nature. Her poetry gives us a recipe, a warning, a hint at what is to come. Somehow she scares us and reassures us at the same time. - Franklin Abbott, poet and psychotherapistAlice Teeter combines both tremendous ambition and wonderful skill in her deft, notational, imagistic, and riveting long poem. Here, at the end takes readers on a journey they might not have thought of taking. This is a poem Basho might have written if he travelled through the world of Mad Max instead of over the Japanese mountains. So there's no Zen here. There's no peace. The coffee isn't fresh. The luggage is zipped up and crammed. The car lacks air conditioning. But it doesn't matter. Alice Teeter is driving and driving and the reader has his seatbelt on and can't believe what he sees.- Mike James, author of Portable LightAll my life long I've wondered what the end would be like. Now, thanks to Alice Teeter, I know. Thanks a lot, Alice! - Lewis Turco, author of The Book of FormsI want to begin with a confession. At first I was disinclined to like these poems. I have become quite curmudgeonly in my old age, and I am increasingly impatient with much of free verse. However, I do like these poems very much. I have read them over a number of times, and I find that they have grown on me...I have always admired your strong sense of detail...I enjoy [the poems] immensely.- Brian McAllister, Professor of English, Albany State UniversityAs someone who is convinced that the earth is about done with humans, I resonate with Alice Teeter's poetic elegy and farewell.- Elise Witt, Songwriter, Musician, Poet, Gardener

Archy, a New York City cockroach, and Mehitabel, a New York City alley cat, were characters created by "The Evening Sun" columnist Donald Robert Perry Marquis. The subject of hundreds of humorous poems and stories, Archy is portrayed as having been a free verse poet in a previous life who takes to writing stories and poems on an old typewriter at the office of a newspaper after everyone has gone home. Archy's best friend is the alley cat Mehitabel with whom the cockroach shares a series of daily adventures which serve as a satiric commentary on the daily life of New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Archy's poems are notable for the fact that they don't use capital letters since as a cockroach he cannot simultaneously hold down the shift key while he hurls himself at the keys to type away on the old typewriter. Don Marquis's Archy and Mehitabel poems were first published as a collection in 1927. This edition reproduces that first collection and is printed on premium acid-free paper.

What is love? In a painstaking effort to answer this question, Samuel Faulk takes the reader on a tumultuous journey of true love gone direly sour. Through poignant poetic storytelling in a unique dictionary format, Faulk reveals the onslaught of emotion in the wake of a marriage's covert deconstruction.Beyond a mere collection of emotive poems, The Devil's Thesaurus serves as an outlet to grieve not only the loss of a lover, but also the loss of self.Ambiguous, reckless, strenuous, and vacant...These are only a few of the adjectives that sum up the culmination of events that transpire throughout this book's pages. Follow the nameless narrator as he works through the alphabet to process the end of everything he holds dear.

Published for the first time in English, the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris, by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She leaves behind writings that to some are unreadable, but to others tell universal, unspoken truths about the lives and struggles of women. When published in the 1970s, her work triggers a rash of copycat suicides. It is hastily withdrawn from sale and eventually forgotten about. Then, in 2004, two women from opposite corners of the globe - Amsterdam and Sydney - rediscover Jeanne Saré's book and set out to discover who the author was and what happened to her. Women across the ages have attached their own stories to Saré's, often with devastating results, but the truth about her may be even stranger than the fictions they have invented.

Enter the Land of Care-Fort, where animal friends help each other through traumatic situations. Join each character as they learn important lessons to help them deal with difficult emotions and experiences.Miguel Morales Monkey loved to climb his favorite tree every day after school, but today he just didn't feel like climbing. How do his friends help him realize that it's okay to feel sad and he is not alone?

The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during months spent in post-genocide Rwanda, but on his numerous extensive interviews with survivors, all of whom lost most if not all of their families, and with convicted genocide perpetrators, conducted in prisons. The result is a startling book of poems that by turns is unthinkably horrifying, heartbreaking, and enraging, yet which at times breaks unexpectedly into stunning revelatory moments of grace. As a poetry of witness this book reveals what it is like to carry on with daily life in a society where nearly every adult male is either a genocide survivor or perpetrator, almost every woman either a survivor or the wife of a perpetrator, and where nearly every child at the time of the genocide witnessed multiple killings, often of immediate family members. Ranging from free verse to stanzaic forms, this book by an NEA-award-winning poet uses tools and methods of poetry to distil each of its many varied voices to its essence, allowing those who are heard in these poems to speak for themselves, often in juxtapositions that lend the book the structure and tension of a drama. Considered more broadly, The Rwanda Poems is a book about the extremities of evil that the human psyche is capable of enduring and inflicting, and the resulting psychic costs to survivors and perpetrators.