{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-suicide-lessons-in-grief-from-the-lives-and-deaths-of-poets-hardcover","title":"The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. T. Welsch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to be?', he delves into the work of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, asking what it can teach us about suicide's messy reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuicide is more like poetry than we realise, Welsch argues. Both are filled with ambiguities, contradictions and unknowable intentions. Both demand and resist interpretation. Recovering the personal dimension often lost in our medicalised public discourse, Welsch finds practical ways of confronting suicide's poem-like difficulties.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Suicides have a special language, ' Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe poetry of suicide\u003c\/i\u003e, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to be?', he delves into the work of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, asking what it can teach us about suicide's messy reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSuicide is more like poetry than we realise, Welsch argues. Both are filled with ambiguities, contradictions and unknowable intentions. Both demand and resist interpretation. Recovering the personal dimension often lost in our medicalised public discourse, Welsch finds practical ways of confronting suicide's poem-like difficulties.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. T. Welsch is a writer and academic born in the US and based in the UK, where he teaches at the University of York. He is the author of several books of and about poetry, including \u003ci\u003eOrchids \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), \u003ci\u003eThe Hell Creek Anthology \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry \u003c\/i\u003e(2020). He also edited the anthology of migrant poetry \u003ci\u003eWretched Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) with Ágnes Lehóczky. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329704649011,"sku":"9781526191991","price":39.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/gULZ4m-0oH9781526191991.webp?v=1778172009","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-suicide-lessons-in-grief-from-the-lives-and-deaths-of-poets-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}