The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black Irish Music Magazine

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starting with Caedmon

to grieve is to be human

Lakshmi has published extensively in Canadian and world literature

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The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Linda Black Irish Music MagazineA 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