The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Translation formally playful and always finely

formally playful and always finely observed

as fascinating objects in their own right) with a transcription and discussion of each poem

but with life

from the highly entertaining 'Against Coupling'

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The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Translation formally playful and always finelyA profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to