Grief Flowers Quitab Editions Helen Degen Cohen was an

Helen Degen Cohen was an authentic cineaste with an insatiable appetite for film

she really means it and when Bach speaks back

our beloved dead

Alison Stone

yet tender

Grief Flowers Quitab Editions Helen Degen Cohen was anMegan Merchants Grief Flowers exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x ray or place it under a microscope; its irregular divisions, its unforeseen growth, its pain emanating from ever shifting and unpredictable locations. These poems are most alive and present in their absence, in the spaces Merchant skillfully creates between what we are grateful for, what we will never have, and what we have lost.