Death Poems: classic, contemporary, witty, serious, tear-jerking, wise, profound, angry, funny, spiritual, atheistic, uncertain, personal, political, mythic, earthy, and only occasionally morbid
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- Publisher
- Red Wheel Weiser; Disinformation
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- San Francisco, CA
- ISBN
- 1938875044
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โฆ Synopsis
"With more than 320 poems, [this collection] goes across all of history, from the ancients straight through to today, across countries and languages, across schools of poetry"--Page 4 of cover.;Introduction -- The nature of death -- Seeing death -- Those who have gone (and the ones till here) -- Love -- The four-legged and the winged -- Violence -- Facing one's demise -- The crossing -- Remains and rituals -- What comes next -- Carpe Diem -- Ossuary.
โฆ Subjects
Death -- Poetry
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