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Because What Else Could I Do
Because What Else Could I Do: Poems | Martha Collins
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Because What Else Could I Do is a sequence of fifty-five untitled short poems, almost all of them addressed to the poet’s husband during the six months following his sudden and shocking death. Perhaps best known for her historical explorations of sociopolitical issues, Martha Collins did not originally intend to publish these poems. But while they are intensely personal, they make use of all of her poetic attention and skills. Spare, fragmented, musical even in their most heartbreaking moments, the poems allow the reader to share both an intimate expression the poet’s grief and a moving record of her attempt to comprehend the events surrounding her loss.
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Difficult to rate since it's a series of poems Martha Collins wrote to her husband after his sudden death. It's a very intimate 'exchange' of thoughts and feelings of loss, love and longing with someone who is no longer alive. Very powerful at times.