The Healing Power Of Creative Mourning

The poems in this collection deal with the universal themes of coping with illness, death, grief, loss, and bereavement. From the Preface by Fred Yager and Jan Yager: "…Creativity can help to fill the emotional void caused by a loss. It empowers you as you take that loss, whether it's because of terminal illness, death, or separation, and create something from it…But whether or not you write your own poetry, there is a cathartic benefit to reading the poems of others. They're also meant to entertain, like a good blues ballad…"

The collection also includes an Epilogue on coping with grief, including selected references and a list of resources for information or direct help, including web site addresses. Topics dealt with in this original collection include: coping with a miscarriage, illness and death of a father; death of a mother, a brother, a grandfather, a friend, a therapist, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.; the holidays after a loved one dies; death during the Vietnam War; and more.