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Title

Things to say to a dead man : poems at the end of a marriage and after / Jane Yolen.

Author

Yolen, Jane

Publication

Duluth, Minn. : Holy Cow! Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

viii, 57 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Internationally renowned author Jane Yolen has composed a sequence of tough, angry, and moving love poems that express grief and gratitude for her late husband David, as witness to his treatment for and passing from cancer, and the ongoing loss that is felt years after his death.

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. The dying. Things to say to a dying man -- Parts of speech -- Hospital bed -- Smells -- Oxygen -- Two singers sing away the pain: a triolet -- The good wife -- Sitting down to eat -- Coma -- II. The dead man. After he died -- Sorry for your loss -- Single malt -- Coming into town -- Rain -- Five breaths -- How am I doing, really? -- Things to say to a grieving woman -- III. First year. Two months later -- Second time around -- Sunday trip to London -- I have not forgotten -- First fall -- First frost -- Gone to ground -- Christmas bird count night: 2006 -- Wading back -- Chinese proverb sent by worried friend -- A matter of fact -- You in the house: a holiday lament -- Taking your clothes to the Salvation Army -- The bull -- Journey -- David moments -- Anniversary of your death -- IV. And after. The garden in April -- The stone -- Neglect -- Grief is not -- Goodbye billy goat gruff -- Cemetery in the snow -- Resignation -- Third Yahrzeit -- This is the morning after his death: a triolet -- Things to say to a widow -- Fifth year anniversary.

ISBN

• 9780983325406 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0983325405 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011011302

OCLC

708648536

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library