Narrative temaer: død, sorg, tab

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is about a family coming to terms with the unthinkable: the death of a mother. Playful and funny, profound and heart-breaking, this is a daring debut about motherhood, anatomy, language and the darkness within us all.

One of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favorites among her poems on death, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her selection one wholly new poem. It makes for a sequence that is warm, vibrant, alive.

Perfect for fans of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine; Ruth Hogan's The Keeper of Lost Things and Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, A Man Called Ove is one of the best-loved and most life-affirming novels of the decade. This multi-million-copy phenomenon is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step. 'Warm, funny, and almost unbearably moving' Daily Mail 'Rescued all those men who constantly mean to read novels but never get round to it' Spectator Books of the Year At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet. He thinks himself surrounded by idiots - neighbours who can't reverse a trailer properly, joggers, shop assistants who talk in code, and the perpetrators of the vicious coup d'etat that ousted him as Chairman of the Residents' Association. He will persist in making his daily inspection rounds of the local streets. But isn't it rare, these days, to find such old-fashioned clarity of belief and deed? Such unswerving conviction about what the world should be, and a lifelong dedication to making it just so? In the end, you will see, there is something about Ove that is quite irresistible . . .

Despite living in an actual castle, happily ever after is evading Margaret 'Maggie' Moore.

En datter har mistet sin mor. Tre børn har mistet deres mormor. Og en mand har mistet sin kone. I bogen »Om 100 dage er det hele bedre« lukker forfatter Pernille Darling Rasmussen os med ind i en personlig sorg og sorgproces i forbindelse med tabet af sin mor, og hun giver os samtidig et bud på, hvordan man kan give sin sorg en håndgribelig ramme, hvor man aktivt forholder sig til den. Helt konkret ved at se på den som et lille fristed at træde ind i, væk fra dagligdagens trummerum, hvor der skrives et lille dagbogsnotat og tegnes en lille skitse – hver dag, i hundrede dage. Sorgen bliver herved afgrænset i tid og rum. Den bliver paradoksalt nok skemalagt, men vigtigst af alt, den får opmærksomhed.Gennem små, korte dagbogsbidder får man scener fra en hverdag fyldt med alt og ingenting: bekymringer, afsavn, glæder, usikkerhed, sysler og samvær. Bogens tone og sprog er på én gang ærlig, let og dybsindig og indholdet lindrende og inspirerende, uanset om man har eller endnu ikke har haft sorgen tæt inde på livet. Dertil kommer illustrationerne fra forfatterens egen hånd, der både supplerer indholdet og bliver en oplevelse i sig selv.

"Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval. With humor and honesty, the book portrays both the pleasures and the horrors of the lover, the citizen, and the medical subject. How can we find, in the midst of hell, what isn't hell? And whom can we tell how much we want to live? An intimate, hilarious and devastating look into some of the most private moments of a life-even if they happen to occur in a medical office with six strangers looking on. This book is for anyone who's ever asked how to live in the face of suffering, and doesn't expect an easy answer. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive looks unflinchingly at painful realities, posing the question 'What isn't hell?' and finds the answer in a powerful eros, letting a loved one pull laughter out of the narrator's reluctant mouth like a 'redvioletcerulean handkerchief'"--

A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it means to move between cultures Renowned for her storytelling and spoken-word artistry, Ama Asantewa Diaka is also an exultant, fierce, and visceral poet whose work leaves a lasting impact.Touching on themes from perceptions of beauty to the betrayals of the body, from what it means to give consent to how we grapple with demons internal and external, Woman, Eat Me Whole is an entirely fresh and powerful look at womanhood and personhood in a shifting world. Moving between Ghana and the United States, Diaka probes those countries' ever-changing cultural expectations and norms while investigating the dislocation and fragmentation of a body?and a mind?so often restless or ill at ease.Vivid and bodily while also deeply cerebral, Woman, Eat Me Whole is a searing debut collection from a poet with an inimitable voice and vision.

Ægteparret Mourad og Malika har barrikaderet sig fra hinanden og fra omverdenen i kælderen i huset i Tanger. Isnende kulde og tavshed har ødelagt deres forhold. Gradvis afsløres den begivenhed, der udløste krisen: Gennem datteren Samias dagbøger hører vi om en tidsskriftredaktør, som under dække af at ville udgive unge pigers digte krænker dem. Samia var 16 år, da hun mødte ham, og det fik fatale konsekvenser. Honning og Malurt skildrer et samfund, der er præget af korruption og dobbeltmoral, og blotlægger følelsen af skyld, tabet af selvagtelse, grænsen for hvad to mennesker kan magte.

Altar of the Imagination is a work of love and loss. Each poem is a witness attempting to make order out of the three generations of women surviving an immigrant history sick with guilt and shame. When the chaos cleared and the last of the lineage is born into and falls in abundant love early in life, there is now confusion of choice: how does she live a satisfied life?As an Aztec dancer, offering prayer to Coatlicue, Coyolxauhqui, and Tonantzin in every dance, each poem asks permission to honor the endurance of her family. Each poem is a plea, teach her how to do this: live. To live how the other women who came before her could not: free.

A brand-new book from the bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events a cautionary tale about his own demise. For curious children and adults alike. ';Reading this little book feels like opening a window to let in air and light. It's filled with curious information and powerful feelings, and is humorous, sad, meditative and rapturous by turns.' Guardian ';A strange, beguiling, beautiful book. No one else could have written it, or anything even a little like it. If Lemony Snicket didn't exist, we'd have to invent him.' Anthony McGowan, author of LarkFor more than twenty years, Lemony Snicket has led millions of young readers through a mysterious world of bewildering questions and unfortunate events. With this latest book a love letter to readers young and old about the vagaries of real life long-time fans and new readers alike will experience Snicket's distinctive voice in a new way. This true story as true as Lemony Snicket himself begins with a puzzling note under his door: You had poison for breakfast. Following a winding trail of clues to solve the mystery of his own demise, Snicket takes us on a thought-provoking tour of his predilections...

Asnia Asim's Quarantine with Rilke shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self-a quiet relationship between the divine and the everyday. These poems meditate on the tension between inwardly solitude and the desire to belong. Steeped in nostalgia and sensitive to the coordinates of Being, they retain their raw vulnerability as, verse after verse, they set out to explore the bewildering power of isolation, longing, and love.¿

Love, Loss, Death and BeautyIn Re-Membering, subtitled "In the midst of life we are in death." from Book of Common Prayer, 1662, Burial of the Dead, Alice Hildebrand explores the complicated relationships within families, especially between mother and daughter, brought into sharp relief by illness and death. Her poems start with the description of the impact of a mother's alcoholism on a child as seen through that child's yearning for greater connection, and move through the life cycle to finally letting go of that wish. In it we see the sadness of the child turn into the compassion and acceptance of maturity, and an exploration of what it means for a daughter to also be a mother herself. Throughout, the poems celebrate the richness of the natural world in which human lives unfold, and express the persistent presence of endings, of loss and death as an integral part of life. The author locates herself and us within the stream of her family's history, and contextualizes that stream within the larger motions of the universe.

We are the overcast, those living beneath the clouds, dealing with loss but somehow still loving the earth. Some of us have been "blessed"; some suffer more than their share. We go from innocence to experience, then back to innocence-are we ever wise? Or do we just reach a point where we either accept or do not accept our lot? These poems explore our relationship with nature and our bewilderment at the losses we undergo. The speaker wonders what the natural world has to tell us and whether we could even understand what it might say. Even with all this struggle, the world holds such beauty. We "sing in [our] chains like the sea." There is no heaven like the song of the overcast.

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Rachel Landrum Crumble's hard-won collection of faith and doubt Sister Sorrow traces a lifetime of decoding a childhood with a beautiful, artistic, schizophrenic mom, experiencing otherness through international travel, becoming a Yankee transplant to the South, marriage as a white woman in 1981 to a Black man and raising biracial children in Chattanooga, TN in the 80's and 90's. It explores cycles of depression and grief over her mother's suicide, and how, although recursive, grief can also lead to wisdom, and a deepening capacity for joy. Sister Sorrow embraces the awkward and the ridiculous as essential aspects of our humanity.