Grief Suite, Poems by Bobbi Lurie
The poems of Bobbi Lurie’s Grief Suite are haunted by mortality, confronting death and loss with an unflinching stare. Alternating between verse and prose rhythms, these poems redemptively claim the darkness: “Every blossom becomes the mother, every dead branch, green leaf."
“There are masterful books hidden here and there, and Grief Suite is one of them. Bobbi Lurie writes with a scalpel—clear, direct and relentless, pared down to the bone, half-silenced by suffering. There is a surreal element here, driven mainly by an honest groping to speak truthfully about what is irremediable. No book I know written out of pure grief is as complete and rigorous as Grief Suite.”—Stephen Berg
Bobbi Lurie has two previous poetry collections, Letter From The Lawn (CW Books, 2006) and The Book I Never Read (CW Books, 2003). Her poems have been included in numerous print and on-line journals including APR and New American Writing.
ISBN: 978-1934999950, 80 pages, $18.00