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After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events

Poet and editor Tom Lombardo brings together 115 poets from 15 nations with After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. This brilliant collection bears messages of recovery to its readers from the raw beginnings to long-term acceptance, delivered through the language of poetry: Grief, War, Exile, Abuse, Divorce, Addiction, Injury, Illness, Bigotry, Loss of Innocence. After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events is filled with clarity of story, emotion, voice, music, and language, with hope that readers will find comfort, guidance, companionship, and healing.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 390
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780981635408
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2008