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The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

Ross, Stuart

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1770416560
ISBN13: 9781770416567
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: Apr 5 2022
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award

A poignant meditation on mortality from a beloved Canadian poet

A writer friend once pointed out that whenever Stuart Ross got close to something heavy and real in a poem, a hamburger would inevitably appear for comic relief. In this hybrid essay/memoir/poetic meditation, Ross shoves aside the heaping plate of burgers to wrestle with what it means to grieve the people one loves and what it means to go on living in the face of an enormous accumulation of loss. Written during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, shortly after the sudden death of his brother left him the last living member of his family and as a catastrophic diagnosis meant anticipating the death of his closest friend, this meditation on mortality -- a kind of literary shiva -- is Ross's most personal book to date. More than a catalogue of losses, The Book of Grief and Hamburgers is a moving act of resistance against self-annihilation and a desperate attempt to embrace all that was good in his relationships with those most dear to him.

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