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Book SynopsisReaders call William's poetry "breath-taking", "refreshing" and "relatable to anyone".The
Grief We're Given explores the collective and personal experience of grief and grieving through themes and tropes such as relationships, love, loss, nature, eternity, and hope as a thinning, but exuberant, door. How are we to learn to grieve when it feels unrelenting? How are we to adore and memorialize small moments of appreciation? How are we to shape our grief into something worth celebrating, and begin to understand the grief we give?
Trade Review"William Bortz has an impressive ability to reflect upon the genuine, often harsh realities of life with profound writing that is equally candid and hopeful." -- Davis John Patton
"With their quiet intensity and graceful questioning, these verses will pull you inside yourself and out into mysterious communal joy." -- Christine Jewel, Author of Fading Through
"In traditional elegiac mode, Bortz invites his reader through moments of grief and sorrow until we arrive at consolation and solace. The movement ebbs and flows toward the loss of love, people, and place with a steady hand that crafts the speaker's own sentiment toward loss without falling into sentimentality or the precious." -- Ruben Quesada, Author of Revelations
"Bortz delivers a subtle portrait of violence and endurance, and an intriguing work that places varied experimental forms in dialogue with one another." -- Publishers Weekly
