Book description
When a loved one dies, the family will often turn to the photograph albums as an act of solace, to keep their loved one with them just a little while longer. Grief Songs: Poems of Love & Remembrance arose from that experience. The collection opens with three free verse expressions…
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1 author picked Grief Songs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I found this collection of missing family members a beautiful remembrance through winsome details and photographs.
An especially dear one called “To Write a Sermon” shows the author as a two-year-old with pencil and paper sitting next to her pastor father smoking a pipe and working on a sermon.
From Joy's list on compelling poetic genealogy.
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