A review by sarahannkateri
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing by Kevin Young

3.0

I'm picky about poems and many of these didn't do it for me. But a lot of them did.

"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on."

Wild Geese - Mary Oliver