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Preface

I. Sweeping Up the Heart

The Bustle in a House Emily Dickinson

Even Music Dorianne Laux

FROM Because What Else Could I Do Martha Collins

Funeral Blues W. H. Auden

Time does not bring relief Edna St. Vincent Millay

FROM A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis

Husband Mary C. McCarthy

FROM for Jane Charles Bukowski

FROM Death Poem Kim Addonizio

Lemon and cedar Melissa Stein

The Role of Elegy Mary Jo Bang

Spell to Bring a Dead Husband Back Allison Joseph

FROM Levels of Life Julian Barnes

Rising Jacqueline Derner Tchakalian

FROM Mother Daughter Me Katie Hafner

FROM Grieving: A Love Story Ruth Coughlin

Refractory Carol Tufts

What It’s Like Barbara Abercrombie

Sonnet 23 John Milton

After Her Death Mary Oliver

The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos

FROM Insomniac City Bill Hayes

Ovation Carol Muske-Dukes

FROM The Best Day the Worst Day Donald Hall

To Ashes Rose Styron

FROM A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken

FROM Dark Thirty Barbara Ras

FROM The Widower’s Notebook Jonathan Santlofer

Precision Laurie Duesing

FROM Poof ! Aviva Layton

FROM And Thou Art Dead, as Young and Fair Lord Byron

FROM Against the Current Matt Bialer

The Year After Virginia Hamilton Adair

He Is Trying to Get Home from the Store, Susan Firer

FROM consummation of grief Charles Bukowski

FROM A Widow’s First Five Years Barbara Lazear Ascher

FROM Grief Stephen Dobyns

Elegy for a Man and a House Marjorie Maddox

Coats Jane Kenyon

Grief Without Fantasy Ronna Bloom

One Way or Another Naomi Shihab Nye

FROM Writing the Impossible Grief of Young Widowhood Kelsey Ronan

A Wife’s Grief Because of Her Husband’s Absence Confucius

FROM Standby Sandy Broyard

FROM I Dreamed of Africa Kuki Gallmann

Passing Is Temporary Allison Joseph

FROM Sixteenth Anniversary Tess Gallagher

FROM The Iceberg Marion Coutts

FROM The Pure Lover David Plante

II. Going On After

FROM Rebus Jane Hirshfield

How It Will Happen, When Dorianne Laux

Wait Galway Kinnell

Dos Gardenias Alexis Rhone Fancher

One Art Elizabeth Bishop

FROM Pushing Through Rainer Maria Rilke

FROM The River Denise Emanuel Clemen

Blessing for the Brokenhearted Jan Richardson

Companion Jo McDougall

FROM Standby Sandy Broyard

Waking Instructions Emma Mellon

FROM AfterImage Carla Malden

The Five Stages of Grief Linda Pastan

FROM Heaven’s Coast Mark Doty

FROM Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar

In the Same Space C. P. Cavafy

FROM On My Own Diane Rehm

Naming Carol Lynne Knight

FROM The Carry Home Gary Ferguson

FROM Levels of Life Julian Barnes

FROM Between Lives Dorothea Tanning

I Am Writing This Blessing Jan Richardson

The Widow’s Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams

Summer Solstice Rose Styron

Desideria William Wordsworth

I Am Willing Elizabeth Gilbert

FROM A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanauken

Long Distance II Tony Harrison

The Embrace Mark Doty

FROM Blue Peninsula Madge McKeithen

Talking to Grief Denise Levertov

FROM First Comes Love Marion Winik

The Well of Grief David Whyte

Saudade John Freeman

Separation W. S. Merwin

Absolutely Clear Hafiz

Benediction Stanley Kunitz

FROM Try to Praise the Mutilated World Adam Zagajewski

Work-Clothes Quilt Patrick Phillips

Trying to Raise the Dead Dorianne Laux

FROM Strange Paradise Grace Schulman

A letter to Grace Schulman Carol Muske-Dukes

In the Garden Thomas Lynch

FROM The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander

FROM Redemption Song Kevin Young

FROM Levels of Life Julian Barnes

Gone / Away Henrik Nordbrandt

FROM Two-Part Invention Madeleine L’Engle

Vigil Phillis Levin

FROM No Longer Than a Sigh Anne Philipe

FROM Here If You Need Me Kate Braestrup

FROM A Grief Observed C. S. Lewis

FROM Nothing Was the Same Kay Redfield Jamison

Lost David Wagoner

Michiko Dead Jack Gilbert

Heavy Mary Oliver

III. Turning

FROM M Train Patti Smith

The Window Rumi

FROM Sparrow Jan Richardson

A Different Sun Kolbein Falkeid

FROM Grace Diane Ackerman

Dream Paul Hostovsky

FROM Because What Else Could I Do Martha Collins

FROM The River Denise Emanuel Clemen

FROM Nothing Was the Same Kay Redfield Jamison

FROM For Daphne at Lone Lake John Haines

FROM The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion

FROM Washing the Elephant Barbara Ras

FROM Safekeeping Abigail Thomas

FROM Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar

FROM The Best of Us Joyce Maynard

Alone Jack Gilbert

FROM A Widow’s Story Joyce Carol Oates

What the Living Do Marie Howe

FROM Geography of the Heart Fenton Johnson

the raising of lazarus Lucille Clifton

FROM A Change of Plan Roger Angell

FROM A Widow’s First Five Years Barbara Lazear Ascher

Heaven Patrick Phillips

FROM The Carry Home Gary Ferguson

FROM To a Woman Now Dead Kōtarō Takamura

Slice of Moon Kim Dower

Birdwings Rumi

Eagle Poem Joy Harjo

Yes Tess Gallagher

The temple bell stops Bashō

Twice Blessed David Whyte

love is a place E. E. Cummings

In Blackwater Woods Mary Oliver

Acknowledgments

Permission Acknowledgments

Endnotes

Index of Authors and Titles of Works

About the Editor