Send My Roots Rain: A Companion on the Grief Journey

By Kim Langley

Book Overview

Langley offers comfort and encouragement to those struggling with recent loss or grief, helping them find language for complex emotions, and open their hearts through poetry.

Send My Roots Rain is a companion full of stories--sometimes wry and funny, always observant and accepting--for letting grief unfold and teach us. Langley invites a keen awareness that the passage through grief is the navigation of a narrow strait, requiring patience, skill, and worthy companions. These poems can be those companions on the journey.

Langley has carefully selected 60 poems and arranged them in a meaningful arc, beginning with the shock of early grief, leading through a sensitive exploration of a new inner space. She introduces each section, encouraging the ongoing embrace of the healing power of poems, writing, and entry into the grieving process. Each poem is followed by a brief meditation and quotation, with questions for contemplation, journaling, or group discussion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612619495
• ISBN13: 9781612619491
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

SEND MY ROOTS RAIN is an excellent sampling of Poetry for Any kind of Loss in our life.

I love the various aspects of the Grief process in these many poems Kim offers us in this book. I also Really appreciate her reflections on these artistic writings, giving her personal insights on each work and sometimes including scientific study data to back up the importance and relevance of these creative entries!! For me, half the fun of reading a poem is hearing or seeing what others think of it!! This book reminds me somewhat of Julia Cameron's book, "The Artists Way" - One of my all time favorite reads!!