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Series: A Study in Grief, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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A Study in Grief: A Five-Book Poetry Collection
Grief doesn't move in a straight line. It circles back. It bargains in the middle of the night. It burns, then goes numb, then-somehow-settles.
A Study in Grief follows the five stages first named by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, and Acceptance - as five standalone poetry collections that can be read alone or together. Each book moves through its stage in full: the small, human moments that don't make it into grief books (an unmade bed, a song that used to mean something, a phone left unanswered), sitting alongside the larger reckonings - with loss, with anger, with the people we were before and the people we become after.
Read closely, and you'll find something else running underneath: a single image that surfaces once in each book, always near its center, changing shape as it moves through each stage of grief. You don't need to find it to feel these poems. But if you do, the collection is telling two stories at once - the one on the page, and the one underneath it.
These are not polished, distant meditations on loss. They're raw, plainspoken, and unflinching - poems for people who don't usually read poetry, written by someone who lived every stage they describe.
Read the five books in order, or read them as they call to you. Either way, they were built to stand alone and to speak to each other.
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