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In Grief Land Carrie Shipers explores the paradoxical nature of bereavement as both a universal human experience and an intensely personal one.

The poems in Family Resemblances unfold in a series of overlapping narratives in which characters struggle with injury and healing, violence and fear, courage and forgiveness. Throughout this beautiful volume, the multiple meanings of family are questioned through careful attention to the often conflicting notions of connection, inheritance, absence, and escape.

Carrie Shipers's Cause for Concern traverses a landscape of assorted disasters-such as overwork and layoffs, the ill-fated explorer, circus mishaps, nuclear disaster and radiation-but at its heart is the personal disaster of spousal illness. While a spouse might avow faith in the sentiment of love in sickness and in health, the practice of such faith might come undone when faced with the reality of the ravages of illness on the stricken body o...