before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love
She loved. She lost. She wrote it all down.

This collection is a poetic autopsy of what love leaves behind-a raw and relentless excavation of what happens when love dies slowly, painfully, and without warning. Moving through the five stages of grief in love-Devotion, Sorrow, Yearning, Resentment, and Solace-each section pulls you deeper into the wreckage of a relationship's rise and fall.

The poems begin in worship, soaked in tenderness and blind hope. But the softness doesn't last. Sorrow slithers in. Longing gnaws at the edges. Then comes rage-feral, unforgiving, and absolutely necessary. And finally, nothing: a strange kind of peace not found in forgetting, but in surviving. Unapologetically emotional, pierced with moments of biting satire and feminist clarity, this collection refuses to dress pain in pretty words. It bleeds, it bites, it heals.

This collection holds nearly 200 poems-real, raw, and rooted in the truth of what it means to love and lose in a woman's world. Minimalist artwork appears on the pages like a lingering echo of all that was lost and left behind. This collection offers poetry for every emotion, and aims to heal those who have hurt.

Love died. So she made art of the corpse.
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before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love
She loved. She lost. She wrote it all down.

This collection is a poetic autopsy of what love leaves behind-a raw and relentless excavation of what happens when love dies slowly, painfully, and without warning. Moving through the five stages of grief in love-Devotion, Sorrow, Yearning, Resentment, and Solace-each section pulls you deeper into the wreckage of a relationship's rise and fall.

The poems begin in worship, soaked in tenderness and blind hope. But the softness doesn't last. Sorrow slithers in. Longing gnaws at the edges. Then comes rage-feral, unforgiving, and absolutely necessary. And finally, nothing: a strange kind of peace not found in forgetting, but in surviving. Unapologetically emotional, pierced with moments of biting satire and feminist clarity, this collection refuses to dress pain in pretty words. It bleeds, it bites, it heals.

This collection holds nearly 200 poems-real, raw, and rooted in the truth of what it means to love and lose in a woman's world. Minimalist artwork appears on the pages like a lingering echo of all that was lost and left behind. This collection offers poetry for every emotion, and aims to heal those who have hurt.

Love died. So she made art of the corpse.
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before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love

before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love

by Melissa Vaughn
before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love

before, during, and after: the five stages of grief in love

by Melissa Vaughn

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She loved. She lost. She wrote it all down.

This collection is a poetic autopsy of what love leaves behind-a raw and relentless excavation of what happens when love dies slowly, painfully, and without warning. Moving through the five stages of grief in love-Devotion, Sorrow, Yearning, Resentment, and Solace-each section pulls you deeper into the wreckage of a relationship's rise and fall.

The poems begin in worship, soaked in tenderness and blind hope. But the softness doesn't last. Sorrow slithers in. Longing gnaws at the edges. Then comes rage-feral, unforgiving, and absolutely necessary. And finally, nothing: a strange kind of peace not found in forgetting, but in surviving. Unapologetically emotional, pierced with moments of biting satire and feminist clarity, this collection refuses to dress pain in pretty words. It bleeds, it bites, it heals.

This collection holds nearly 200 poems-real, raw, and rooted in the truth of what it means to love and lose in a woman's world. Minimalist artwork appears on the pages like a lingering echo of all that was lost and left behind. This collection offers poetry for every emotion, and aims to heal those who have hurt.

Love died. So she made art of the corpse.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798319659798
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 08/12/2025
Edition description: Black and White ed.
Pages: 230
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)
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