Description
This moving poetry collection confronts the absence left by the death of a beloved brother from AIDS-related complications, transforming private grief into an expansive meditation on love, memory, and survival. Through intimate, conversational poems—often shaped as letters, recollections, and scenes from ordinary life—it reveals how mourning persists alongside errands, parenting, household chores, and the rhythms of the seasons. The collection’s elegies honor both the pain of loss and the enduring presence of the dead, while asking what it means to continue living when life has been irrevocably changed. Clear-eyed, tender, and deeply accessible, these poems find profound emotional truth in the everyday.
Available Editions
paperback
W. W. Norton & Company
Published Apr 1, 1999
91 pages
ISBN: 9780393318869
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for What the Living Do by Marie Howe.