Grief Flowers Quitab Editions Survival is an exercise in

Survival is an exercise in learned helplessness

Hers is a book to read at the precipice on which we stand

listening to what speaks ‘into the silence between sounds

author of Out of the Blue and The Face I Desire

Helen Degen Cohen was an authentic cineaste with an insatiable appetite for film

Grief Flowers Quitab Editions Survival is an exercise inMegan Merchants Grief Flowers exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x ray or place it under a microscope; its irregular divisions, its unforeseen growth, its pain emanating from ever shifting and unpredictable locations. These poems are most alive and present in their absence, in the spaces Merchant skillfully creates between what we are grateful for, what we will never have, and what we have lost.