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The Book of Endings
Contributor(s): Harrison, Leslie (Author)
ISBN: 1629220639     ISBN-13: 9781629220635
Publisher: University of Akron Press
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2016026149
Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.40 lbs) 88 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Death/Dying
 
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Publisher Description:
Finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry

The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.