{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-suicide-lessons-in-grief-from-the-lives-and-deaths-of-poets-9781526191991","title":"The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. T. Welsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781526191991","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45521204445321,"sku":"9781526191991","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9178413e-49b2-4bd7-b753-4da11f6395ae.jpg?v=1776226489","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-suicide-lessons-in-grief-from-the-lives-and-deaths-of-poets-9781526191991","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}