Lullaby for the Grieving

A Shelf Awareness 2025 Best Book of the Year
Southern Literary Review's Best Poetry Book of the Year
Maya Angelou Book Award 2025, Poetry, longlist

With previous work hailed by the New York Times as “unflinching” and “piercing”, Ashley M. Jones’s Lullaby for the Grieving is her most personal collection to date.

In her fourth poetry collection, Jones studies the multifaceted nature of grief: the personal grief of losing her father, and the political grief tied to Black Southern identity. How do...