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  Circles and Circles of Sorrow

  As “A Voice from Heaven” in The Good Book: Writers Reflect on Favorite Bible Passages, Andrew Blauner, ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015)

  As “Travel Dust and the Magical Tracks of Zora Neale Hurston” in Zora Magazine, January 2016

  The prayer “A New Sky”

  As “Prayer before Dying” in PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, issue 19

  Feetfirst

  As “Without Her” in the New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2015

  Works Referenced

  Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row

  ____. Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal, edited by Johanna Fernández

  Alexander, Elizabeth. The Light of the World

  Alighieri, Dante. Inferno, translated by Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander

  Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

  Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan

  The Bible: New International Version (English); Louis Segond Version (French)

  Camus, Albert. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

  ____. The Plague

  ____. Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

  ____. The Stranger

  Chekhov, Anton. Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

  Clifton, Lucille. The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010, edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me

  Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory

  ____. Brother, I’m Dying

  ____. The Dew Breaker

  ____. The Farming of Bones

  ____. Krik? Krak!

  de Beauvoir, Simone. A Very Easy Death, translated by Patrick O’Brian

  DeLillo, Don. Falling Man

  ____. Mao II

  ____. White Noise

  Didion, Joan. Blue Nights

  ____. The White Album

  ____. The Year of Magical Thinking

  Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life

  Divakaruni, Chitra. One Amazing Thing

  Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying

  Flaubert, Gustave. Selected Letters

  Freud, Sigmund. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

  ____. Reflections on War and Death

  García Márquez, Gabriel. Living to Tell the Tale, translated by Edith Grossman

  ____. One Hundred Years of Solitude, translated by Gregory Rabassa

  ____. Interview with Peter H. Stone, the Paris Review

  Gibson, William. Interview with Joe Fassler, “The First Sentence Is a Handshake,” the Atlantic online

  Giovanni, Nikki. Chasing Utopia, A Hybrid

  Gordon, Mary. Circling My Mother

  Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon

  Hitchens, Christopher. Mortality

  Hughes, Langston. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

  Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road

  ____. Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

  Jamison, Kay Redfield. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

  Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth. On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

  Lewis, C. S. A Grief Observed

  Lorde, Audre. The Cancer Journals

  Montaigne, Michel de. The Complete Essays, translated by Charles Cotton

  Morrison, Toni. Beloved

  ____. The Bluest Eye

  ____. “The Dead of September 11,” Vanity Fair

  ____. Interview with the National Visionary Leadership Project (video)

  ____. Interview with Thomas LeClair, “The Language Must Not Sweat,” the New Republic

  ____. Interview with Elissa Schappell, the Paris Review

  ____. Jazz

  ____. the Nobel Lecture

  ____. Paradise

  ____. Song of Solomon

  ____. Sula

  Murakami, Haruki. After the Quake

  ____. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

  Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient

  Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Poems

  Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones

  ____. Lucky

  ____. Interview with David Mehegan, “Words to Live By,” the Boston Globe

  ____. Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air

  Selasi, Taiye. Ghana Must Go

  Sexton, Anne. The Complete Poems

  ____. A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames

  Sexton, Linda Gray. Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide

  ____. Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

  ____. “A Tortured Inheritance,” the New York Times

  Sontag, Susan. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

  Streitfeld, David. “The Intricate Solitude of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,” the Washington Post

  Thomas, Dylan. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

  Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina, translated by Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky

  ____. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession, translated by Peter Carson

  ____. Letters and Papers, edited by J. M. Packham

  Ueland, Brenda. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

  West, Cornel. Interview with Andrew Goldman, “Cornel West Flunks the President,” the New York Times Magazine

  Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

  ____. The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder, edited by Robin G. Wilder and Jackson R. Bryer

  EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of numerous books, including Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book of 2013; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and elsewhere.

  This book is made possible through a partnership with the College of Saint Benedict, and honors the legacy of S. Mariella Gable, a distinguished teacher at the College.

  Previous titles in this series include:

  Loverboy by Victoria Redel

  The House on Eccles Road by Judith Kitchen

  One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer

  The Weatherman by Clint McCown

  Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon

  Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship by Nuruddin Farah:

  Sweet and Sour Milk

  Sardines

  Close Sesame

  Duende by Tracy K. Smith

  All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song by Ellen Bryant Voigt

  How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique

  One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina

  The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker

  On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman

  Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

  On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss

  Cinder: New and Selected Poems by Susan Stewart

  Support for this series has been provided by the Manitou Fund as part of the Warner Reading Program.

  The text of The Art of Death is set in Warnock Pro, a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach for Adobe Systems in 2000. Book design by Wendy Holdman. Composition by Bookmobile Design & Digital Publisher Services, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Manufactured by Versa Press on acid-free, 30 percent postconsumer wastepaper.

 


 

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