{"product_id":"9781940769370","title":"No One to Wake","description":"In \u003ci\u003eNo One To Wake,\u003c\/i\u003e Marilyn C. O'Leary shares \"a bouquet of mourning\" the death of her husband of fifty years. This book of poetry is beyond beautiful. And one needn't have been married for fifty years, or married at all, to feel softly wrapped in the understanding of how it feels to lose someone you love deeply. Both pain and transcendence are painted in her poems, plus the naturalness and magic of death itself \"...you took your leave breathing like a fish, swimming out into an ocean of darkness and love.\" She also addresses the guilty urge to look back and question whether she did enough, whether she was enough \"The recipe for my life had ingredients you didn't like,\" and then acknowledges that \"Our relationship was whole.\"\u003cbr\u003e And then there's the need to go on. She recognizes the \"freedom\" that comes from loss; \"sadness an opening... (to) find yourself unwrapped. I could do anything, be anything, go anywhere,\" she writes, but \"What if it wasn't you who kept me tethered?\"\u003cbr\u003e In this small book, O'Leary takes us from the dark folds of anguish where we're sometimes drawn towards death ourselves, to the realization that \"The answer to all is Life.\"","brand":"Mercury Heartlink","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033437913328,"sku":"9781940769370","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940769370_p0.jpg?v=1763754849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940769370","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}