The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black This is an essential resource

This is an essential resource for anyone looking to broaden their horizons and engage with the cutting edge of poetry as it is practised

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The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black This is an essential resourceA profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to