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Steven Lewis

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On October 28, 2023, my beloved grandson Rory was killed by a drunk driver. He was 21.

In the months that followed, as a working writer for more than fifty years, writing was the only thing that made the grief bearable, not by resolving it, but by leaning into it. Facing it. Learning to say YES to life when NO was the only word available.

In December 2025, Codhill Press published Peering Into Infinity: Mirrors of Love & Grief. It is a collection of poems written from inside loss, not about grief from a distance, but from the marrow of it. Readers have called it a companion for the unbearable. A source of solace. Language for what cannot otherwise be named.

If you are carrying something you cannot yet put into words, this book was written for y ...more

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Steven Lewis liked Maria Ellison's review of Peering Into Infinity Mirrors of Love & Grief: "Steven Lewis has taken the unthinkable, the loss of his beloved grandson Rory, and transformed it into something breathtakingly beautiful and painfully real. This collection isn't just poetry; it's a raw, honest conversation with grief that somehow m" Read more of this review »
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Steven Lewis liked Audra C.'s review of Peering Into Infinity Mirrors of Love & Grief: "This book felt less like reading poetry and more like sitting beside someone brave enough to speak honestly about grief without trying to soften it. What moved me most was that Steven Lewis never forces meaning onto tragedy. The poems simply allow pa" Read more of this review »
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Steven Lewis liked Gafen's review of Peering Into Infinity Mirrors of Love & Grief: "Peering Into Infinity Mirrors of Love & Grief is one of the most emotionally raw poetry collections I’ve read. It doesn’t try to soften grief or give it meaning, it simply sits inside it. Knowing it was written after the devastating loss of the autho" Read more of this review »
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