Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
Thirty-one years later, another poet — who began writing verse for similar reasons — has produced a book of similar merit. Tom Sleigh has earned numerous awards, fellowships, and Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts grants. He’s published in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Poetry magazines. He’s also an essayist, dramatist and journalist who has reported from Somalia, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Kenya.
The mother whose attention he craved is the titular figure of Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell (Unbound Press; May 2026). But those expecting a simple mother-son narrative are warned; the memoir lands closer to Kiese Laymon’s Heavy in its knotted complexity. At the forefront is assisted suicide, but other themes — mental health, chronic illness, infidelity, sexual abuse — flicker in the background
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