Bereavement–Poetry is a Library of Congress Subject Heading. Given the tragedies in Boston and in Texas, it seems like a appropriate Subject Heading for the moment. We have four titles that correspond:
- The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing edited by Kevin Young
- Redgrove’s Wife by Penelope Shuttle
- Expectation Days: Poems by Sandra McPherson
- In War With Time: Poems by Leila Pepper
We also have, of course, the greatest literary work on painful repose: The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton.