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The Widow's List
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The Widow’s List is a searing, intimate long poem born from the long shadow of losing a beloved partner. Written in the wake and wakefulness of grief, it traces the quiet, relentless ways absence r...
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03 November 2026

The Widow’s List is a searing, intimate long poem born from the long shadow of losing a beloved partner. Written in the wake and wakefulness of grief, it traces the quiet, relentless ways absence reshapes a life. Here, mourning is both solitary and shared: a private language spoken in public spaces, a daily inventory of what remains and what will never return. The poem moves through the paradoxes of loss and how it can feel unbearably heavy and eerily hollow at once, how it interrupts time while insisting life goes on, how it lives beside you, breathing when you can’t. With clarity and emotional precision, The Widow’s List captures the moments we rarely name: the daze, the rituals, the small survivals, the sudden surges of memory that make the ordinary luminous and the familiar strange. It is not a guide through grief, but a companion within it honest, unflinching, and deeply humane. For anyone who has loved and lost, this book offers recognition, language, and a quiet, steady presence in the ongoing work of carrying both fullness and emptiness at once.
Price: $14.99
Pages: 44
Publisher: Artvoices Books
Imprint: Artvoices Art Books
Publication Date:
03 November 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9798991223485
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, POETRY / Women Authors, SELF-HELP / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Diane Stevenson was born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. She secured an M.F.A. from Columbia University and was granted a graduate degree without an undergraduate degree. Next, she parlayed Columbia’s Ph.D. program in American literature and published The Beauty Shop Monologues, nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She's a Breadloaf Scholar and was listed in an early edition under “Outstanding Writers: Poets.” Stevenson was one of the 3 authors of ‘Did You Kiss A Cat Today’ a book of humorous and poignant poetry for children of all ages. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Hobart and William Smith, and the University of Southern Mississippi. She's published poems and articles in The Nation, Boulevard, Pataphysics, Raritan, The Yale Review, Socialist Review, and The Mississippi Review. Her husband was the late great film critic and historian Gilberto Perez.