A Year in the Life of Death

FREE SHIPPING A Year in the Life of DeathPoems Inspired by the Obituary Pages of The New York Timesby Shawn LevyPublication Date: October 19, 2021Trade Paper; 212 pages; 5-1/4" x 8"978-1-938753-41-1POETRY DESCRIPTION When Shawn Levy had the notion to write a poem each day for a year, inspired by the obituary pages of The New York Times, he had no way of knowing that the year in question, 2016, would claim so many of the world’s most iconic figures. His project became, in effect, a vehicle for surveying the breadth of the twentieth century: Titans from all fields of endeavor, lives that contained one quirky but insoluble achievement, and people who had special significance in his own life. From Nancy Reagan to Muhammad Ali, David Bowie to Arnold Palmer, Prince to Janet Reno, Antonin Scalia to Mary Tyler Moore, and including a Black Miss America, an obsessive weather reporter, the nurse famously kissed by a sailor on VJ Day, the man who put the “@” in your email address, and the last man