Necropolis

by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Award-winning poet Jill Alexander Essbaum takes her reader on a three-day journey through death and grief. Filled with her trademark sensuality and humor, here Essbaum also addresses issues of faith, fiercely questioning God while also trusting in the promise of resurrection.

Genres: Poetry

88 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2008

Reviews

[Rusty]

This is a rough book to read. There's tension in every line, and despair, and some hope. And boy. It's so unlike her other books, and excellent in an utterly commanding way. These poems demand attention.

[Neil Orts]

Is it fair to review it since I'm the publisher? Well, I published it because I love it. Even after it's back from the printer, I keep rereading certain poems in this collection.

[Daniel Klawitter]

rsvp

No, no, no.
I will not go.
Death can wait
its long, late
time away,
placing daises
on someone else's grave.

I am off to elsewhere.
Let the devil share
his dram and groan
with another body's bones.
And even Heaven
(a place far better than regret)
can't have me yet.

[Kyle]

JAE split me open with her thumb . . . I could read these poems again and again (and will). She combines the fierce, pious doubt of Vassar Miller with the irreverence and wit of Dorothy parker. I hate mash-up comparisons like that, but IT TRUE. It true.