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My thoughts for the day. I'm helping my cousins take care of my aunt as she enters into palliative care. She means so much to me, and I'm so very grateful for this time I have with her and her children.
Grab life by the horns and find the joy in every day. We never know how long we have, and I don't ever want to leave things until it's too late.

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Faber poetry collection mourning the loss of his wife and celebrating their love.
Also:-
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Uprooted by Naomi Novack

These are some earnest, heartfelt poems. He clearly loved his wife a lot and misses her. The poems themselves, however, are so-so. I definitely enjoy his novels much more.

#poemsbeforephones My current poetry read is a collection by the author of one of my all time favorite books, The Crimson Petal and the White. It‘s written about his deceased wife and her battle with multiple myeloma. Sadly, a lot of the poems just aren‘t that good. I did like the above, though, as it highlights how he felt helpless to do anything about her situation. Very sad.

Faber has written an exquisite collection of poetry about losing his wife to cancer --both the battle and the grieving. He manages to be both sparse and rich at the same time and each poem conveyed such a crystal clear emotion or experience. Highly recommend.

From "Anniversary " by Michel Faber. This poetry collection is incredible.

This poetry collection chronicles parts of Faber's wife's last year, her death and the following months. A lot of poems on death are on the sentimental side, but Faber instead mixes the sentimental with anger, confusion and of course profound sadness to create a highly relateable (beautiful written) account. He writes about well-meaning people, daunting task of preparing a funeral, doctors who sent his wife home to google the diagnosis and more.

Wow. An incredibly moving insight into the intimacies of a relationship growing ever stronger, as one partner's health deteriorates. I found it very hard to listen to Michel Faber talking about his late wife, but I very much admire so much emotional openness #edbookfest

https://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/2016-edinburgh-international/id1145828984?mt...

Holy crap. This was a tough read, but a beautiful one. 'Undying' is bursting with love and anger and grief. Such brutal honesty about cancer and death that is took my breath away.

Michel Faber's poems to his sadly departed wife have arrived. I am going to need a hug from you all once I'm brave enough to read it. This collection will probably ruin me.