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Published by MoonPath Press, 2026.
“The Brilliant Beyond is quietly brilliant. It has the depth of a great mountain range in a mere handful of pages. It moved me to tears, and even better, it moved me to understanding some things I thought I already knew about marriage and about grief. Here you meet a couple at the beginning and the end—with caregiving in between. Nature and weather convene around both, then around the one that stays after the other has left. This book is so rare that, upon finishing, I wanted to thank the author—and start it again.” — Molly Peacock, author of The Widow’s Crayon Box
“The Brilliant Beyond: Poems of a Long Goodbye traces the landscape of love, illness, loss, and the persistent work of living on. In spare, vivid poems rooted in the natural world—snowfall, ravens, forests, sea wind—Ann Dixon chronicles the years surrounding her husband’s final illness and death, and the life that follows.
Clear-eyed and compassionate, these poems embody both the devastation of widowhood and the stubborn persistence of love. The collection is a deep meditation on absence, resilience, and the mysterious ways our dead remain present. The Brilliant Beyond enacts grief’s long arc—and honors the courage required to keep living within it.” — Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of Corvus and Crater
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