Loss & Longing is the second installment in the Publik / Private “V’ Series—an intimate gathering of fourteen poets whose work spans centuries, continents, languages, and forms. Edited by Jordannah Elizabeth Graham-Mayer, this collection traces the delicate, unbreakable braid between love and absence, devotion and distance, memory and desire.
From the aching tenderness of Paul Laurence Dunbar and the spiritual urgency of Rainer Maria Rilke to the sensual immediacy of Bernadette Mayer and the metaphysical transcendence of John Donne, these poems refuse easy consolation. Here, longing is not something to overcome—it is something to inhabit.
‘V’ Series: Loss & Longing
Publik / Private 