Download or read book The Book of Endings written by Leslie Harrison and published by Akron Poetry. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry The poems in The Book of Endings try to make sense of, or at least come to some kind of reckoning with absence - the death of the author's mother, the absence of the beloved, the absence of an accountable god, cicadas, the dead stars arriving, the dead moon aglow in the night sky.