Death Will Be Our Curfew

Amber Showalter’s third collection of poetry journeys through the five stages of grief in Cinderella-style counting down to midnight.. Written by a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner who was also on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 Death Will Be Our Curfew lays bare every emotion of mourning. With lyricism and dark beauty Showalter’s poems accompanied by Viktoriya Samoylov’s evocative art capture loss in its many forms: the loss of a relationship a friendship memories normalcy the self.With her verses recounting the breadth and gravity of sorrow Showalter is a “blonde-haired blue-eyed harbinger of death” as midnight approaches. By the time the clock strikes twelve the reader will feel both the anguish of grief and the strength to rise to a greater future.