The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Helen Burke The Fire of Joy is

The Fire of Joy is the record of this final journey of recollection and celebration

Its publication was a watershed

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and is complemented by a meditative essay on the complexities of the relationship between the poet and his family

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The Poetry of Suicide: Lessons in Grief from the Lives and Deaths of Poets by J.T. Welsch Helen Burke The Fire of Joy isA profound exploration of the connection between poetry and suicide. 'Suicides have a special language', Anne Sexton wrote in her 1964 poem 'Wanting to Die'. But is it a language we can learn to read? In The poetry of suicide, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of suicide in his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet's 'To be or not to