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YolYolen,Jane.  \nThings to say to a dead man:3008003543799115.95MRCPL OCT 262011  \n# Praise for Jane Yolen\n\n“Things to Say to a Dead Man is a stunning book.What JaneYolen offers the reader is nothing but the truth:this is whatgrief looks like,sounds like,smells,like,feels like.Only onewho has loved so deeply can mourn this profoundly.Finelycrafted and full of gorgeous imagery,every single word is anarrow that pierces the heart.”  \n—Leslea Newman,Poet Laureate of Northampton,MA 2008-2010,author of Nobody's Mother  \n\"If a life is measured by what is left behind,then these raw,honest and accomplished poems are a defining tribute to ahusband treasured far beyond words.These are poems thatcome from a fathomless hole in the heart,and they tell notonly of unimaginable sorrow,but of a long and remarkablemarriage,built on the pleasures of love,on felicity to family,onlaughter—and on birdsong.Jane Yolen is right when she saysthat‘no one can tell a griever how to grieve,'but this book willbe welcome and wise company to those who suffer the loss ofsomeone deeply cherished.”  \n—Patricia Lee Lewis,author of High Lonesome  \nPoetry Books by Jane Yolen  \nAmong Angels(with Nancy Willard;Harcourt,1995)  \nThe Radiation Sonnets:For My Love in Sickness and in Health(Algonquin,2003)  \nhngs to Sayt0 aDead Man  \n# Poems at the End of a Marriageand After\n\nJane Yolen  \nText C Copyright 2011 byJane Yolen.  \nAuthor and cover photographs,binocular image C2011 byJason Stemple.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in anymanner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of briefquotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.  \nFirst printing,2011  \nISBN 978-09833254-0-6  \n10987654321  \n# Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data\n\nYolen,Jane.  \nThings to say to a dead man:poems at the end of a marriage and after/by Jane Yolen.  \np.cm.  \nISBN 978-0-9833254-0-6(alk.paper)  \nI.Title.  \nPS3575.043T432011811'.54—dc222011011302  \nThis project is supported in part by grant awards from the Ben andJeanne Overman Charitable Trust,the Elmer L.and Eleanor J.AndersenFoundation,the Cy and Paula DeCosse Fund of the MinneapolisFoundation,and by gifts from individual donors.  \nHoly Cow!Press books are distributed to the trade by Consortium BookSales &Distribution,c/o Perseus Distribution,1094 Flex Drive,Jackson,TN 38301.  \nFor inquiries,please write to:Holy Cow!Press,Post Office Box 3170,Mount Royal Station,Duluth,MN 55803.www.holycowpress.org  \n!  \nTo the Memory of David W.Stemple and bis gallant five-year battle with cancer:.  \nWith special thanks to my three children and their spouses who helped methrough the last plus five years.To Corinne Demas,Zane Kotker,and LesleaNewman who heard a number of these poems and pushed for revisions,even past the pain.To Bud Webster for his enthusiasm.And to ElizabethHarding who never gives up.  \n!  \nContents  \nAuthor's 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The Dying  \nThings to Say to a Dying Man……………………………………………………………  \nParts of Speech…………………………………  \n…………………………………………4  \nHospital Bed…………………………………………………  \n……………………………………………6  \nSmells……………………………………………………………  \n……………………………………………………7  \nOxygen…………………………………………  \n……………………………………………………8  \nTwo Singers Sing Away the  \nlet………………………………………………9  \nThe Good Wife……………  \n……………………………………………10  \nSitting Down to Ea……………………………………  \n…………………………………………………11  \nComa………………………………  \n…………………………………………………12  \nI. The Dead Man  \nAfter He Died…………………………………………  \n………………………………………………15  \nSorry for Your Loss ……………………………………  \n……………………………………………16  \nSingle Malt…………………………………………  \n……………………………………………18  \n…………………………………19  \nComing into Tow………………………………  \n……………………………………………20  \nRain…………………………………………………………………  \n…………………………………21  \nFive Breaths…………………………………………  \n………………………………………………22  \nHow Am I Doing,Really?………………  \n…………………………………………………23  \nThings to Say to a Grieving ","cbCaijgHoPyUdPkC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijgHoPyUdPkC","pdf",1617848,76,"English","# Praise for Jane Yolen\n# Poems at the End of a Marriage and After\n## I. The Dying\n### Things to Say to a Dying Man\n### Parts of Speech\n### Hospital Bed\n### Smells\n### Oxygen\n### Two Singers Sing Away the\n### The Good Wife\n### Sitting Down to Ea\n### Coma\n## I. The Dead Man\n### After He Died\n### Sorry for Your Loss\n### Single Malt\n### Coming into Tow\n### Rain\n### Five Breaths\n### How Am I Doing,Really?\n### Things to Say to a Grieving Woman\n## I. First Year\n### Two Months Later\n### Second Time Around\n### Sunday Trip to London\n### I Have Not Forgotten\n### First Fall\n### First Frost\n### Gone to Ground\n### Christmas Bird Count Night:2006\n### Wading Back\n### Chinese Proverb Sent by Worried Friend\n### AMatter of Fact\n### You in the House: A Holiday Lamen\n### Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Arm\n### The Bull\n### Journey\n### David Moments\n### Anniversary of Your Death\n## IV. And After\n### The Garden in Apri\n### The Stone\n### Neglect\n### Grief Is Not\n### Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff\n### Cemetery in the Snow\n### Resignation\n### Third Yahrzeit\n### This Is the Morning After His Death:A Triole\n### Things to Say to a Widow\n### Fifth Year Anniversary\n# Acknowledgment","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Things to Say to a Dead Man?\",\"answer\":\"The book centers on grief expressed through poems addressed to a dying man, a dead man, and those left behind. 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