Healing the Adult Sibling's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Brother or Sister Dies (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)

Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined, accompanied by action-oriented tips for embracing bereavement. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, this resource provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath. Contents......Page 12 Dedication......Page 14 A Horse with Two Wings: A Note on Criticism and Poetics......Page 16 Metrical Diversity......Page 19 Metrical Subversions: Prosody, Poetry, and My Affair with the Amphibrach......Page 27 A Carol for Carolyn......Page 32 Langpo, Pomo, Newfo......Page 33 Omniformalism: A Manifesto......Page 37 The Body of Poetry......Page 40 Liturgy......Page 43 Walk with Me: On Poetry and Music......Page 44 Passion in Translation: Louise Labé......Page 48 Sonnet 18 “Kiss Me Again”: by Louise Labé......Page 53 H. D., “Imagiste”?......Page 54 Technology and Inspiration: Introduction to A Poet’s Craft......Page 58 Poetics: A Taxonomy......Page 62 Repetition, Repetition......Page 64 How to Create a Poetic Tradition......Page 68 Mother Dickinson......Page 73 Letter for Emily Dickinson ......Page 78 The Heart of Phillis Wheatley......Page 79 Unnecessary Burdens: Cooper, Glück, Graham......Page 84 Carolyn Kizer and the Chain of Women......Page 92 My Teasdale Talisman......Page 101 Female Tradition as Feminist Innovation......Page 104 Coherent Decentering......Page 110 Desks......Page 118 Stein the Romantic, Mallarmé the Radical......Page 127 Victorian Voice-Making and the Contemporary Poet......Page 130 Confessions of a Postmodern Poetess......Page 135 Dactylic Meter: A Many-Sounding Sea......Page 146 A Rock in the River: Maxine Kumin’s Rhythmic Countercurrents......Page 150 The Ghost of Meter Revisited......Page 160 Making Shattered Faces Whole: The Metrical Code in Audre Lorde......Page 163 In Defense of Meter......Page 168 Limping Prosody......Page 172 Forms of Memory......Page 177 John Peck’s Hypnagogic Poetry......Page 187 Encounter......Page 192

Compassionate and heartfelt, this collection offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. The principles of grief and mourning are clearly defined, accompanied by action-oriented tips for embracing bereavement. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, this resource provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.

Offers 100 practical ideas to help understand and accept the passing of a sibling in order to practice self-healing. This title defines the principles of grief and mourning. Whether a sibling has died as a young or older adult or the death was sudden or anticipated, it provides a healthy approach to dealing with the aftermath.