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The Grief We're Given

William Bortz author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Central Avenue Publishing

Published:2nd Feb '21

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Readers call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone".

The Grief We’re Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature, eternity, and hope as a thinning, but exuberant, door. How are we to learn to grieve when it feels unrelenting? How are we to adore and memorialize small moments of appreciation? How are we to shape our grief into something worth celebrating, and begin to understand the grief we give?

“With their quiet intensity and graceful questioning, these verses will pull you inside yourself and out into mysterious communal joy.”—Christine Jewel, author of Fading Through
“A luminous and consistently breathtaking exploration of grief, Bortz’s stunningly crafted writing will stay with you long after its final exhale.”—Blake Auden, author of Murmuration
“The imagery is tangible; the metaphors are breathtaking. The depth of this collection makes it one worth reading again and again.”—Davis John Patton, singer/songwriter

ISBN: 9781771682190

Dimensions: 210mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 295g

144 pages