Sometimes, in the Afterwards: Meditations on Loss
Language: English
Published by Write Where We Belong Press, 2025
- Softcover
- New
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Condition: New
£ 16.98
Quantity: Over 20 available
Add to basketSeller Inventory # I-9781068828508
- Title
- Sometimes, in the Afterwards: Meditations on Loss
- Author
- Simmerling Ph.D., Mary
- Publisher
- Write Where We Belong Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1068828501
- ISBN 13
- 9781068828508
Sometimes, in the Afterwards is a stark and deeply moving exploration of grief, memory, and what remains in the wake of loss. Through precise and unflinching language, Mary Simmerling navigates the spaces between past and present, presence and absence, love and its aftermath. These poems are meditations on how memory lingers in the body, in landscapes, and in the smallest details of daily life. They do not offer easy resolutions, but instead invite the reader to sit with loss, to witness how it lingers in the body, in landscapes, in the smallest details of daily life. With clarity and restraint, Simmerling honors both the weight of sorrow and the quiet resilience that follows. For anyone who has grieved, Sometimes, in the Afterwards is a book that does not turn away—but instead stays, offering language to give voice to what so often feels unspeakable.
Mary Simmerling’s evocative book title, “Sometimes, in the Afterwards” combines two central themes in her spare, thoughtful poems—momentary glimpses of chiaroscuro that emerge in shadowy presences of past. “Incandescent water” is a central image that shimmers, mirrors, drowns, washes clean. A babe in the womb coming into the world as a sister leaves the world is a moving image that often rises to the surface. Birth/death, love/loss, light/dark glisten—“light penetrates the broken parts.” Nature is place of cruelty and solace—talon marks in snow, yet under “old friends the pine boughs.” Each poem ponders relationships in time and liminal space, body wisdom, witness, wonder—each a moment “of being/ and becoming,” full of gratitude despite duende—Each poem a star “shining in the darkening/ winter sky.” - Kate Marshall Flaherty"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
California Books
Miami, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since October 27, 2023
Shipping rates within U.S.A.
| Item | 3 to 7 business days | 2 to 5 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 2.25 | £ 12.74 |
Payment methods
Store description
We have 20 years experience selling books worldwide! Friendly customer support. Your satisfaction guaranteed!
Specialty
All authorized categoriesSeller's business information
Miramar International Services LLC
FL, U.S.A.
Right of withdrawal
If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.
Information regarding the right of withdrawal
Statutory right to withdraw
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.
To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).
We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.
We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.
We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.
We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.
You shall send back the goods or hand them over to California Books, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.
Exceptions to the right of withdrawal
The right of withdrawal does not apply to:
- The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
- The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.