Somber poems deal with the end of summer, winter dawn, travel, mortality, childhood, education, nature and the spiritual aspects of life.

This memoir from a seasoned hospice volunteer details the day-to-day needs ofpatients and their families, and how volunteers help the ill person deal withpain a

Poems about the various stages of grief, with 150 selections from a variety of 20th-21st century poets.

Demystifying the “Poet Laureate of Depression” Pleasure-loving, sarcastic, stubborn, determined, erotic, deeply sad--Jane Kenyon’s complexity and contradi