The Empire of Forgetting Cooking with dairy products Personal & social issues: death

Personal & social issues: death & bereavement (Children's / Teenage)

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Imprint: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The Empire of Forgetting Cooking with dairy products Personal & social issues: deathJohn Burnside's last collection of poems gathers around a single theme mortality and draws on his faltering health and earlier glances with death, creating a powerfully moving exploration of memory, forgetting and the seven ages. Here, as always, there is a clear eyed curiosity; a sense of wonder at the beleaguered natural world and its endless mutability its hidden beauty, often suddenly disclosed and a deep faith in its old gods. Burnside was always