Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

Name: Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
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"Kevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets." -Billy Collins

The Art of Losing is the first anthology of its kind, delivering poetry with a purpose. Editor Kevin Young has introduced and selected 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections (Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption), with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, The Art of Losing is the ideal gift for a loved one in a time of need and for use by therapists, ministers, rabbis, and palliative care workers who tend to those who are experiencing loss.

Among the poets included: Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Louise Gluck, Ted Hughes, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, Marianne Moore, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Derek Walcott, and James Wright.

Publisher:: Bloomsbury USA
ISBN:: 9781608194667
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 336
Authors:: Kevin Young
Published Date:: 2013-11-05
Language:: English

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About Kevin Young

A member of the Dark Room Collective as a young writer, Kevin Young was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, grew up largely in Topeka, Kansas, and studied under Seamus Heaney and Lucie Brock-Broido at Harvard University before earning an MFA at Brown. Book of Hours (Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011) won an American Book Award. His nonfiction study Bunk (Graywolf Press, 2017) received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He directed the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and serves as poetry editor of The New Yorker.

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