Alex Gallo-Brown

Biography

Alex Gallo-Brown is the author of The Language of Grief (2012), a collection of poems, and Relief (2014), a chapbook. His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in print and online at The Rumpus, Salon, The Good Men Project, The Collagist, Fanzine, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other publications. He is the recipient of a 2013-2014 Walthall fellowship for emerging artists in Atlanta. Find him at www.alexgallobrown.com.

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Books

The Language of Grief
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 8,980. Language: English. Published: June 14, 2014 . Categories: Poetry » American poetry
The poems in "The Language of Grief" chronicle the sudden loss of the poet's father to illness and subsequent effect that loss had on his family, community, and psyche. The book's lyrical, often darkly humorous poems show the ways that grief can shatter us--and the ways we put ourselves back together.

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art    father son    grief    healing    language    mourning    poetry