Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal
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Many of the poems are autobiographical: about first encounter, marriage, life and love together, and death. The actual physical occurrence of death can be readily described by physicians, but its emotional and life effect is much more illusory. Without question, these poems are simply one person's response to death and grief. They provide no decisive answers on how to respond to either, but if one's open and honest response can help others address such challenges, so be it.
The goal of the author is not to provide steps for the grieving, rather through poetry to share the thoughts of the heart and mind as they grapple with death and grief. He avers that through the very difficult process of grieving, which may never completely end, love alone is the key to healing and renewal.
S T Kimbrough Jr.
S T Kimbrough, Jr. is a Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition of the Divinity School of Duke University and founder of The Charles Wesley Society. He is editor of its journal Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society and author/editor of several books on Charles Wesley including: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, 3 vols., and The Manuscript Journal of the Reverend Charles Wesley, M.A., 2 vols.
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Of Death and Grief - S T Kimbrough Jr.
Of Death and Grief
Poems for Healing and Renewal
S T Kimbrough, Jr.
Foreword by
J. Richard Watson
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Poems for Healing and Renewal
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Section 1: Death and Dying
1. The Power of Death?
2. Death and Life
3. The Anguish of Death
4. Death Absent and Near
5. Where Is the Long-Awaited Calm?
6. Death’s Holy Grail
7. Till Death Us Do Part
8. Grace-Filled Death
9. Embrace the Dying
Section 2: Grief and Grieving
10. Grief Is but a Breath Away
11. Grief
12. Grief’s Redemption
13. When Grief’s Dark Shadows Fill the Heart
14. More Grief?
15. Grief and Questions
16. The Answer to Grief
17. Sleeplessness, Grief’s Torturous Friend
18. A Prayer for the Grieving
19. Grief Is Ever on My Mind
20. Secret Grief
21. The Risk of Grief
22. The Power of Grief?
23. Make not of Grief an Idol
24. Grief Comes and Goes
25. Misdirected Grief
26. The Brighter Side of Grief
Section 3: Love and Loving
27. Love and Grief
28. The Medicine of Love
29. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
30. Constancy
31. Stronger Than Death
32. The Eternal Art
33. To Live Again
Epilogue: God, Whose Love Revives the Soul
In these piercingly honest poems occasioned by the death of his beloved wife, Sarah, S T Kimbrough, Jr., gives unguarded voice to his grief. This is not easy reading because these poems force us to face not only the death of those we love but our deaths. These are searing poems, but in a strange way they are beautiful.
—Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina
"In these 33 poems by S T Kimbrough, Jr., I found a depth of love, grief, passion and power that