My mother agrees with the dead

By: Susan Stenson

April 2007
72 pages | ISBN 1-894987-18-7
$17.00

Susan Stenson understands death. She knows the importance of grief and the difficulty of finding the words to say the final goodbye. In My Mother Agrees with the Dead, Stenson offers beautifully-shaped poems that show the living how to find space for the dead in their own lives. The poems in this collection are strong, honest, insightful, gentle and, at times, surprisingly funny; there is more compassion in them than in a hundred sympathy cards.

Reviews

• Great Poetry Books (DC Reid, dcreid.ca, 8/1/2008) "This is the best fully-accessible book of poetry I have ever read. Not one word too many, not one word too few."
• Prairie Fire Review of Books (Kath MacLean, Prairie Fire, 7/2/2008) “Mostly narrative and uncluttered by complicated imagery or form, Stenson's poems aim high and hard and hit us where we need it most: straight through the heart.”