Edited by Kevin Young, The Art of Losing introduces 150 devastatingly beautiful poems that embrace the pain and heartbreak of mourning. Divided into five sections—Reckoning, Remembrance, Rituals, Recovery, and Redemption—with poems by some of our most beloved poets as well as the best of the current generation of poets, including Elizabeth Alexander, W. H. Auden, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Li-Young Lee, Philip Levine, and Marianne Moore.