<b>This collection of poetry interrogates the impact of grief and partner violence on a family lineage as well as the connections between sorrow and joy as they relate to poetry women's writing and the process of the confessional.</b>&nbsp;<p>Inextricably woven into these investigations of various types of grief is the question of what gendered and socioeconomic statuses we bring with us when we choose poetry as a method of recording the intimacies of a life.</p>