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Posts Tagged: Letters to Yesenin

What to Read When You’re Broke Down in Hell

By Melissa Stephenson

August 31st, 2018

A list of Melissa Stephenson’s down-and-out favorites for when you have a case of the grays.

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Tags: Abandon Me, All About Love, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, bell hooks, Between the World and Me, Cheryl Strayed, Dept. of Speculation, Driven, Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back, Erin Belieu, gilead, home, Housekeeping, Jenny Offill, Jim Harrison, Letters to Yesenin, lila, Lydia Millet, Marilynne Robinson, Melissa Febos, Melissa Stephenson, Nick Flynn, slant six, Sweet Lamb of Heaven, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tiny Beautiful Things, What to Read When

Letter to Jim

By Melissa Stephenson

December 30th, 2016

Many days I couldn’t see the way forward, but I kept going, the way you had. It was you, after all, who taught me how to stay.

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Tags: boarding school, brothers, children, Dead Man's Float, death, divorce, Farmer, ghazal, graduate school, Jim Harrison, Just Before Dark, Letters to Yesenin, marriage, Melissa Stephenson, Mentor, Michael Delp, Michigan, Missoula, Montana, motherhood, mothers, New Mexico, parenting, Patagonia, poetry, siblings, single mother, sisters, suicide, tattoo, Texas, Upper Peninsula, writing

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