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After the End: Unwrapping Grief

After the End: Unwrapping Grief - Paperback

by David Rice
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Availability:In StockContributor:David RicePublish date:12/15/2025Pages:82
Language:EnglishPublisher:Just Keep Walking PressISBN-13:9781733115445ISBN-10:1733115447UPC:9781733115445Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.17 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC8W84GF8Q

My daughter died suddenly in 2023, at age fifty-three, of a brain hemorrhage. I scattered some of her ashes in Lassen Volcanic National Park, a place I had backpacked into and birded for forty years-my daughter had been there with me-that burned in 2021. Since my daughter's death, I have felt, at times, that too much of what I loved was gone. The psychologists now say the last stage of grief is not acceptance, but meaning. I'm still working on it.


tires checked

coolers, tents, flashlights

check, check, check

and the box of ashes . . .

her last camping trip


in the photo

chiaroscuro trees and shadows

trying to imagine

shades of green

before the fire

Language:EnglishPublisher:Just Keep Walking PressISBN-13:9781733115445ISBN-10:1733115447UPC:9781733115445Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:11.00 x 8.50 x 0.17 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC8W84GF8Q
Rice, David: -

David C. Rice has been writing tanka for thirty-five years and was the editor of the Tanka Society of America's triannual journal, Ribbons, from 2012-2019. He has written seven other tanka books, four co-written with other poets/artists, including one about the climate calamity, as well as a book about birding. He lives in Berkeley, California, and works as a clinical psychologist.

Publisher: Just Keep Walking Press

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