Widows' Handbook - Poetic Reflections on Grief and Survival

An anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring collection celebrates the strategies widows learn and the resources they muster to deal with people, living space, possessions, social life, and especially themselves.

About the author

Jacqueline Lapidus, a Boston-based editor, teacher, and translator, holds degrees from Swarthmore College and Harvard Divinity School. She has published poems in many periodicals and anthologies and in three collections: Ready to Survive, Starting Over, and Ultimate Conspiracy. Her significant other died suddenly in 2004.
Lise Menn, professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Colorado (Boulder), has written, coauthored, or coedited seven books and more than fifty peer-reviewed articles. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, and she is preparing a chapbook of recent work. Her second husband died of cancer in 2006.

Summary

An anthology of poems by contemporary widows, many of whom have written their way out of solitude and despair, distilling their strongest feelings into poetry or memoir. This stirring collection celebrates the strategies widows learn and the resources they muster to deal with people, living space, possessions, social life, and especially themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline (EDT)/ Menn Lapidus, Lise Menn
• Assisted by: Jacqueline Lapidus (Editor), Lise Menn (Editor)
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9781606352045
• ISBN: 978-1-60635-204-5
• Series: Literature & Medicine; Literature and Medicine
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies