Bøker av Meghan O'Rourke

Named a Best Poetry Book of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review, Sun in Days is "O'Rourke's most ravishing and brilliant collection yet" (Cathy Park Hong).

Features speakers who seek their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, and refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination.

The poems in Once illuminate and echo themes of loss and grief. Vanity Fair"

Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened to her mother, but also at the inability of people to acknowledge her pain; her sense that the meaning of her life had changed fundamentally with the loss of a parent; the way that the reassuringly familiar often became somehow completely new and strange. The Long Goodbye interleaves personal recollections of her much-loved mother with an examination of what it means to grieve in a society which no longer has the rituals - or even, most of the time, the desire - to engage with grief, to understand it, and to let it do both its worst - and its best.