Daneen Bergland’s The Goodbye Kit: A Compassionate Guide for End-of-Life Planning

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Airlie Press, paperback

Publication Date: September 15, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Narrative but elliptical, The Goodbye Kit is awash in lyric that thrills as it laments. Themes of transgression and longing infuse these poems about girlhood, marriage, parenthood, aging, and nature. Mapping the charged terrain of human relationship, and marked by a feral sensuality, they explore ecologies of intimacy made tangible through both experience and witness. Their impulse is to capture and project beauty and loss, but also view our mutable and tender flesh through “wolf-colored glasses,” revealing us as the beautiful, culpable animals we are.

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