Disinformation Books has just published an anthology called Death Poems: Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tear-Jerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid.
The collection, edited by Russ Kick, gathers the best poems about death and dying from across history.
The book features 320 poems from writers like William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Yeats, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, and William Stafford. It includes three poems reprinted from Todd Davis's book Some Heaven.
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