Limited Editions - Paperback

by Carole Stone (Author)

A portrait of marriage, caretaking, grief, and recovery.

Carole Stone's Limited Editions is an end-of-life narrative journey, from her long-term marriage to the illness and death of her husband. Stone's honest, understated, and detailed poems, each packed with narrative, bring us to the heart of her loss. Stone does not flinch in her descriptions of her husband's suffering and dying moments. She dispassionately describes the everyday details of coping with being on her own--from daily household chores to the loneliness of being single as an aging woman. With Stone's crisp observations and raw honesty, Limited Editions challenges the reader to think about death, grief, widowhood, and aging as a natural process in the life cycle.

Author Biography

Carole Stone is distinguished professor of English emerita at Montclair State University. She has published five books of poetry and four chapbooks, among them Traveling with the Dead, American Rhapsody, and No Happy Ruins. Her recent work has appeared in Blue Fifth Journal, Slab, Bellevue Literary Review, and Nimrod.