River Song: Poems

by Deborah Hochberg, Mary Stebbins Taitt (Illustrator)

Overview

In this chapbook, her third collection of poetry, Deborah Hochberg traverses the landscape of loss.

and in another

alternate reality

it is you who must go on

without me

without our nightly conversations

how we could talk

about anything

about everything

Weaving back and forth in time, from youthful innocence through illness and bereavement, these poems seek to chart the wild and disorienting experience of grief.

The other side

lies closer

than we think

One moment here together

a gentle communion

as if known

before

it was to be

our last

conversation

Existing in a place between absence and presence, these bittersweet and unsentimental poems honor a singular relationship and the persistence of human connection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781965278437
Publisher:	Mission Point Press
Publication date:	03/11/2025
Pages:	66
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Deborah Hochberg is from Detroit, Michigan and a graduate of Wayne State University. She is the author of two collections of poetry entitled Waiting For the Snow (Mission Point Press, 2021) and Memory's Reservoir (Mission Point Press, 2022). She is a member of the Detroit Poetry Salon.

Mary Stebbins Taitt has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a master's degree in biology from Idaho State University. Her artwork has appeared in many publications including Third Wednesday and the cover of The Hopper Literary Magazine. She has exhibited widely in Detroit, Michigan, (including the Lawrence Street Gallery and the Grosse Pointe Artists Association), as well as at multiple venues in Syracuse, New York.