Chocolate Cake and Other Losses: Poems about Grief
Ebook
From early childhood--a spilled piece of chocolate cake--to the approach of the very end of our lives, there is a common theme: loss. In order to move ahead effectively, one must grieve that which has been lost; yet, rarely does our society allow appropriate time, space, and encouragement to grieve. Wright's poetry deals with various grief experiences--loss of health status, as in her own current situation; relationships; homes; and even distance grief as we view stories in the news. Her own openness to expression of deep feelings invites readers to explore their own grief experiences and to feel them to the depths of their being.
“Any person who has been through grief will find insight and comfort in the poems of Shirley Wright. She is at times brutally honest about the pain of loss but always with a hint of hope and joy in family, nature, and relationship with the divine. Her true wisdom and gentle spirit are a welcome companion for walkthrough reflections on difficult topics.”
—Marion Owen, family doctor
“The words, images, and raw experiences described in these poems touch us in the deepest places of our griefs and sorrows. Shirley Wright has bared her soul so that we might understand that there is one who hears our weeping and is present even in our deepest darkness.”
—Loyd Melton, professor of New Testament and Greek, Erskine Theological Seminary
- Title: Chocolate Cake and Other Losses: Poems about Grief
- Authors: Darryl Wright, Shirley Biggerstaff Wright
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666793918, 9781666793901, 1666793906, 9781666736076, 1666736074, 1666793914
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666793918
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-18T20:30:40Z
Shirley Biggerstaff Wright holds a DMin from Erskine Theological Seminary, Due West, South Carolina, with a dissertation involving the Psalms and grief. Her MDiv is from Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is a retired minister in the United Methodist Church. Much of her focus in ministry has been in the area of loss and grief.