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“Death Canoe” Poetry Review: Grief Is a Vessel Carried Away by a Current
The innovative and deeply vulnerable Maggie Nelson explores the transformational nature of inescapable grief.
Grief flows from Maggie Nelson in sensuous prose meshed up with time passing in blood. Take the first lines of “Death Canoe”: “Surprised by blood passing, a large clot for morning, surprised later on in the day by the ice … Continue reading
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“Death Sets a Thing Significant” by Emily Dickinson
A poem about cherishing what our loved ones leave behind
Even if you’re not a huge fan of poetry, you’ve most likely heard of mid-19th century poet Emily Dickinson. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson spent most of her life completely isolated from the outside world. Her work was … Continue reading
