Book Summary
The Birth of a Widow is an utterly shattering portrait of the sudden loss of a husband and a shared life that will speak to anyone who has ever loved or lost a loved one. In these poems of electric honesty, Giorgio explores how she struggles to survive her first year as a widow, using all her wisdom, humor, anger, to cross the vast sea of grief to the other shore, bringing us—wiser, too—along with her.
—Jesse Lee Kercheval, author of I Want To Tell You
Sixty-six days after Kathie Giorgio’s husband was killed when he was struck and run over by a passenger van while walking to his bus stop, Kathie’s grief broke out unbidden into poetry. For the year after his death, she wrote the poems as they arrived. An intimate study of traumatic loss, Giorgio exposes the full depth of grief’s sadness, anger, and confusion.
Publisher: Kelsay Books (Feb. 24, 2026)
AISN: B0GQ45W871
ISBN-13: 979-8901467190
Print Length: 88 pages
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About the Author, Kathie Giorgio
Kathie Giorgio is the author of seventeen traditionally published books: eight novels, two story collections, an essay collection, and five poetry collections. Her new novel, Unique In All The World, will be released in February 2027. She’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in fiction and poetry and awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association and the Eric Hoffer prize for fiction, among others.
Giorgio is also the founder and director of AllWriters’ Workplace &Workshop LLC, an international creative writing studio offering online and on-site courses and workshops for all genres and abilities, as well as coaching and editing services.
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Website: www.kathiegiorgio.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kathie.giorgio.5
Instagram: @kathiegio1 https://www.instagram.com/kathiegio1/
Twitter/X: @kathiegiorgio https://x.com/kathiegiorgio
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