Other Ways to Die

Other Ways to Die is a powerful and candid poetry collection that depicts the quiet, cumulative weight of inherited trauma, loss, and endurance. Moving across three distinct movements, Ironic, Foreshadowed, and Elliptical ways to die, the book bridges a healthcare background with intimate personal history, challenging how we carry generational inheritance and what it costs to survive it. These poems confront past lovers, complex themes of identity, grief, and family dynamics with sharp emotional control and unflinching clarity. From the sterile focus of medical observation to the raw vulnerability of domestic life and motherhood, the collection charts a path through survival as a deliberate act of reclamation. Raw, deeply resonant, and expertly crafted, Other Ways to Die speaks to anyone who has had to chart their own way through inherited grief and emerge whole on the other side.