A selection of poems about death and its rituals.
Shapero, Natalie. Popular Longing. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2021.
Differs from published version.
Kinnell, Galway. When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Doty, Mark. My Alexandria. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Harper, Michael S. Dear John, Dear Coltrane. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970.
Hopler, Jay. Still Life. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2022.
Differs slightly from published version.
Johnson, Kimberly. Fatal. New York: Persea Books, 2022.
From an unpublished manuscript titled Fire: Poems Against Pandemic.
Uncollected.
Hirshfield, Jane. Ledger. New York: Knopf, 2020.
Dominguez, Angel. "Don't Tell My Mother if They Kill Me #2." Brooklyn Magazine, 4 April 2017. Web. Accessed 31 August 2023.
An excerpt from the long poem "Fixer"; published version does not include titles for individual sections.
Kunz, Edgar. Fixer. New York: Ecco, 2023, pp. 38-39.
Farris, Katie. Standing in the Forest of Being Alive. New Gloucester: Alice James Books, 2023.
Blaeser, Kimberly. Copper Yearning. Duluth: Holy Cow! Press, 2019.
Differs slightly from published version.
Herd, Niki. "Bird." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 20 January 2020. Web. Accessed 4 March 2025.
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet. Farmington: Alice James Books, 2005.
Uncollected.
