Book Review: A Fine Yellow Dust

A Fine Yellow Dust

by Laura Apol

Michigan State University Press

Health, Mind & Body | Poetry

Pub Date 01 Aug 2021

I am reviewing a copy of A Fine Yellow Dust through Michigan State University Press and Netgalley:

Late in April of 2017, Laura Apol’s twenty six year old daughter Hanna took her own life on a sunny April Afternoon, afterwards she was shattered.

In the days and weeks that followed Hanna’s death she began to write.

Apol had long believed in the therapeutic possibilities of writing, having conducted workshops on writing-for-healing for more than a decade. Yet after Hanna’s death, she had her own therapeutic writing to do, turning her anguish, disbelief, and love into poems that map the first year of loss. This collection is the result of that writing, giving voice to grief as it is lived, moment by moment, memory by memory, event by event.

If you are looking for a heartwarming, as well as heartbreaking collection of poetry dealing with grief and loss from a fresh perspective. A Mother’s grief told in beautifully written poem.

I give A Fine Yellow Dust five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!