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Poetry collection · Adult

The Book of Endings

by Leslie Harrison

Part of the Akron series in poetry series

88 pages · 2017

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About the book

The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.

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