Kamlakar Bhat's poem The Soft Grief Of Others revolves around the quiet and pervasive nature of grief and empathy ...

Just looking out the window, Lord, reminds me of a friend, How she felt bad to lose her Dad, told how his days did end. "I recall when Dad flopped on SNOW, made an 'Angel', for us; "We were amazing!

Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving, Dickinson’s piece—and the final stanza, in particular—suggests the dead might live on in the afterlife. An icon of his time ...

In a contextual way, the simmering, inventive, and significant poems in Jeet Thayil’s latest poetry collection I’ll Have It ...