Death Becomes Us
Barry Kazimer
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Jude Castillo
, P. Thompson
, Linda Leitch
, Joann Horgan
, Meradith Anderson
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Marilyn Stanley
, Holly Elisabeth
, Sarah Van Dyk
, cassandra schiemann
, Melissa Kohlman
, Paula Adam
, Lauren Seal
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Natasa Ilic
, Noelle Walsh
, Paige Stephen
, Stephanie Baird
, Tannis McCartney
, Deb Philippon
, Laurie Burns
, Patricia Johnson
, Benita Hartwell
, Karen Nordrum
, Leslie Vermeer
, Dora Dueck
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Katelynn Watts
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Kim Cappellina
, Robert Hykawy
, Prabh Toor
, Gina Bergman
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, PETER TASSIOPOULOS
, Randi Ann Doll
, Hilary Jenkins
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Chris Lantz
, Lynn Andrews
, C. Ray
, Janice Cournoyer
, Andrea Pole
, Melissa Poremba
editor@49thShelf.com
Beginning with halcyon days cast in soft light and cool dew, onward through veiled years of diagnosis and environmental damage, Death Becomes Us captures, with masterful grace and restraint, the intensity of absence and the importance of grief. Within the darkest moments of personal and ecological loss, Kristen Wittman's second collection fashions a garden of love poems from memories of soft kisses and falling towers, a broken Eden where pain nurtures tender, blooming petals, and the ceaseless heartbeat of Mother Nature pulses underfoot, bringing forth every new dawn.
