Three Names For Longing

Three Names for Longing is an intimate collection of prose and poetry that dwells in the emotional spaces most people know but struggle to name. It is a book about love, yearning, tenderness, beauty, memory, grief, and the quiet lives our feelings continue to live long after moments have ended.

The collection is shaped around three untranslatable words: Sehnsucht, Yugen, and Hiraeth. Drawn from German, Japanese, and Welsh, these words each express a different shade of longing. Sehnsucht gest...