Out of Season Work by and About Young People Who Died

Here are the voices of those who died young, & of those who mourn them. The answer to the question, "When did your loved one die?" is always, "Yesterday." Although the pain in this anthology is palpable, it is healing, bonding, cathartic. It began with David Ray's BRIEF SONG for his son Sam: There will come a day/When you would have lived your life/All the way through,/Mine long gone./And peace will descend then,/Such a great peace, like a breath/Moving those pines, moving/Even the stone./And then, then I can let go. Contributors include: Edward Butscher, Roland Flint, David Ignatow, Molly Peacock, Robert Peters, Simon Perchik, Peter Wilde & over 100 bereaved people sharing their grief. They are powerful & varied in their approach yet never forget the demands of the art that shaped them; fierce in their legitimate mourning wherein readers will find consolation without sentimentality or mysticism. As Barri Armitage wrote: "I feel this will be an important, much-needed help to those who suffer the sorrow of lives taken 'out of season'. Your title tells it all."Trachtman, Paula is the author of 'Out of Season Work by and About Young People Who Died' with ISBN 9780943959030 and ISBN 0943959039.