{"product_id":"the-brilliant-beyond-9781970256215","title":"The Brilliant Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brilliant Beyond: Poems of a Long Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e is quietly brilliant. It has the depth of a great mountain range in a mere handful of pages. It moved me to tears, and even better, it moved me to understanding some things I thought I already knew about marriage and about grief Here you meet a couple at the beginning and the end-with caregiving in between. Nature and weather convene around both, then around the one that stays after the other has left. This book is so rare that, upon finishing, I wanted to thank the author-and start it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Molly Peacock, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Widow's Crayon Box\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Brilliant Beyond: Poems of a Long Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e traces the landscape of love, illness, loss, and the persistent work of living on. In spare, vivid poems rooted in the natural world-snowfall, ravens, forests, sea wind-Ann Dixon chronicles the years surrounding her husband's final illness and death, and the life that follows.Clear-eyed and compassionate, these poems embody both the devastation of widowhood and the stubborn persistence of love. The collection is a deep meditation on absence, resilience, and the mysterious ways our dead remain present. \u003cem\u003eThe Brilliant Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e enacts grief 's long arc-and honors the courage required to keep living within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of \u003cem\u003eCorvus and Crater\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Moonpath Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781970256215","brand":"Moonpath Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48254391648393,"sku":"9781970256215","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1a121339-0cd5-4b79-a6d2-4d71e238ccc4.jpg?v=1788300907","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-brilliant-beyond-9781970256215","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}