MAN DIES, LEAVES WIDOW ON EARTH: A Cycle of Poems on Intimacy, Nature & Grief, published by SAY YES QUICKLY BOOKS
With this stunning new cycle of poems about death and survival, Sue Westwind immediately becomes one of the most important voices writing today from America’s heartland prairies. Her towering lyrical power, her ability to tell even the most heartbreaking stories in ways that make you feel like you were personally witness to them, and an authorial honesty—a willingness to look at herself, her family, and bottomless grief itself without flinching—will take your breath away. These are poems that will make you ache and deeply rejoice in the same instance. Take a deep breath, then dive in.
“It isn’t easy to sing ‘in praise of how all things must end,’ but in Man Dies, Leaves Widow on Earth, Sue Westwind wanders the long corridors of grief and shares both the hollowing days and the inevitable invitation to bloom. Both practical and lyrical, these poems invite us into the tender, mysterious seasons of loss. Westwind brings voice to unspeakable sorrow and with the same fragile tenacity, lets herself be found by the beauty that is always here.”
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and host of The Poetic Path
