The Language of Loss. Barbara Abercrombie

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      Praise for The Language of Loss

      “In these pages, more than a hundred writers who have known what it is to lose someone they deeply love offer language for the meaning of this most powerful life experience. This is not a book you read once and put on a shelf. It’s a precious resource to take out again and again, as life deals its inevitable blows. The Language of Loss looks squarely in the eye of heartbreak and offers what all of us need most: a community of voices reminding us we are not alone, and that it is possible to survive great loss and tell the story.”

      — JOYCE MAYNARD, bestselling author of Labor Day and The Best of Us

      “With this remarkable anthology, Barbara Abercrombie has given us solace for the soul, a companion to keep close by, for there is never a timeline for grief.”

      — JACQUELINE WINSPEAR, New York Times bestselling author of the memoir This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing and the Maisie Dobbs series of historical mysteries

      “A deeply moving collection of voices that intimately reveals the universal complexities of loss: how love navigates our absences, how our insurmountable grief becomes a companion, how our mourning becomes resilience.”

      — RICHARD BLANCO, 2013 presidential inaugural poet and author of How to Love a Country

      “We are mortal creatures who love deeply — never forget it. All great poetry is about this. And here is the anthology that proves it — simply, beautifully, tenderly, lovingly. Everyone should have at least one copy.”

      — ERICA JONG, bestselling author of Fear of Flying

      “Here is a treasury of words for when there are no words. There is comfort here, and there are tears.”

      — ABIGAIL THOMAS, author of A Three Dog Life

      The Language of Loss

      Also by Barbara Abercrombie

      Fiction

       Good Riddance

       Run for Your Life

      Nonfiction

       Kicking in the Wall

       A Year of Writing Dangerously

       Writing Out the Storm

       Courage & Craft

      Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved & Lost (editor)

      Poetry

       Traveling Without a Camera

      (with Norma Almquist and Jeanne Nichols)

      Books for Young People

       The Other Side of a Poem

       Amanda & Heather & Company

       Cat-Man’s Daughter

       Michael and the Cats

       Charlie Anderson

       Bad Dog, Dodger!

       The Show-and-Tell Lion

      The Language of Loss

      Poetry and Prose for Grieving and Celebrating the Love of Your Life

       Edited by

      Barbara Abercrombie

      New World Library

      Novato, California

      New World Library

      14 Pamaron Way

      Novato, California 94949

      Copyright © 2020 by Barbara Abercrombie

      All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, or other—without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Permission acknowledgements can be found beginning on page 181.

      Text design by Tona Pearce Myers

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Abercrombie, Barbara, editor.

      Title: The language of loss : poetry and prose for grieving and celebrating the love of your life / edited by Barbara Abercrombie.

      Description: Novato, California : New World Library, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An anthology of noted poems and prose, both recent and classic, that deal with the themes of loss and grieving.”-- Provided by publisher.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2020030377 (print) | LCCN 2020030378 (ebook) | ISBN 9781608686957 (paperback) | ISBN 9781608686964 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Loss (Psychology)--Literary collections. | Grief--Literary collections.

      Classification: LCC PN6071.L69 L36 2020 (print) | LCC PN6071.L69 (ebook) | DDC 808.81/93548--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030377

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030378

      First printing, November 2020

      ISBN 978-1-60868-695-7

      Ebook ISBN 978-1-60868-696-4

      Printed in the USA on 30% postconsumer-waste recycled paper

      New World Library is proud to be a Gold Certified Environmentally Responsible Publisher. Publisher certification awarded by Green Press Initiative.

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       In memory of

       Robert V. Adams, 1932–2015

      When Tibor died, the world came to an end. And the world did not come to an end. That is something you learn.

      —MAIRA СКАЧАТЬ