The Grief Artist by Brimhall, Traci

The Grief Artist (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781956046533)

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The Grief Artist by Brimhall, Traci

The Grief Artist

$18.95
The Grief Artist by Brimhall, Traci

The Grief Artist

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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For fans of Six Feet Under and Caitlin Doughty's From Here to Eternity comes a meditation on grief, rituals and art by award-winning author Traci Brimhall


The Grief Artist is a collection of essays that reflects on death rituals and the absence thereof in contemporary American culture. Brimhall examines the wreaths and tableaux of Victorian mourners, death photography and mourning fashions. She rents a haunted house to try and talk to the dead and a museum of haunted objects in the effort to experience something spiritual and uncanny, made blankets for hospice patients, visited ghost towns and interviewed believers of the paranormal all while trying to understand her own grief. During her travels and investigations she came to understand how deeply individualized mourning and grief was to people across the United States. But through lyrical and thoughtful observations also asks the question how do we grieve communally? Can we? Is it possible to build a more accessible set of cultural death rituals? Through cultural analysis and observation, historical research and personal story, Brimhall contemplates how we grieve and endure.



Author: Traci Brimhall
ISBN-10: 1956046534
ISBN-13: 9781956046533
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2026
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
By Traci Brimhall
By Traci Brimhall
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Traci Brimhall is the author of five collections of poetry: Love Prodigal (Copper Canyon, 2024); Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020); Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010), selected by Michelle Boisseau for the 2009 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New England Review, Ploughshares, Orion, Brevity, The New Republic and New York Times Magazine. She has also received the Just Desserts Short Fiction Prize from Passages North (selected by Roxane Gay), the Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction from Bellingham Review (selected by Sue William Silverman), the Jane Geske Award for poetry from Prairie Schooner (selected by Kwame Dawes), the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America (selected by Sally Wen Mao), and a Pushcart Prize.


In 2025, she was Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2023, she received an Artist-in-Residence position through the National Parks Service at Bighorn Canyon. She also serves as the Poet Laureate for the state of Kansas (2023-2026).

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